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.

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.