Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

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.

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.

Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

Why not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?

I think, for all of us, enjoying time with our kids and our families helps us stay grounded.

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.