The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

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.

Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else.

Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

We were not born to sue, but to command.