There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.