Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

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.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.