In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem..

What valuable company is nobody building?.

I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the conte….

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our governme….

The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition..

Society is secretly driven by sales.

University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a….

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past..

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to h….

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America..

I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for government….

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths..

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. ….

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowle….

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one..

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can b….

There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very….

Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique so….

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them..

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where e….

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius..