We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

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

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.