We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

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.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing.

The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to the woman who did.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.