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.

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.

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.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.