Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.