When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

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.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.