Society is secretly driven by sales

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 think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Dark clouds not only bring thunderstorm, They also bring rain.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

To become a filthy rich, first you need to be filthy.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

There are babies a span long in hell.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.