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

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.

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.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.

You need to earn the right to promote.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.