Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

Listen, Patch, I don’t want to be rude, but—” “Sure you do.” “Well, you started it!” Lovely. Very mature.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope

Does God notice when I'm afraid? Note the resolve in the eyes of Jesus as he marches through the storm to rescue his friends.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.