Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation..

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

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope t….

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on..

Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong….

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity gr….

I'm always very excited about trying to do something on next-generation biotechnology and life sciences because I think if we can cure cancer or deme….

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in….

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Com….

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 b….

Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter wh….

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 some….

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers..

I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically. And so Chi….

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

Luck is like an atheistic word for God..

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world..

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories i….

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

The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right time to start it, and it's ofte….

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophe….