Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

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 Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you, " he said. And erased him from his heart.

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

We are all writing God's poem.

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

The stronger the facts are there, you should achieve justice. You don't need to make sensationalized statements.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.