I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

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.

There are many new sinners today, but there aren’t any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

It's like walking through someone's small intestine.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

No worry before its time.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.