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.

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.

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

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.