We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

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 read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom.

Watch your back. Ain't a thing in armor worth trustin' out there.

Nothing is absolute

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.