You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

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.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

No. At the States we get no matches that are played in Europe on TV.

That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants.