All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

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.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.