I’m not a macroeconomics person.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

If you judge, investigate.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The movie business is a big gamble.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.