“Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

The marketplace is democratic.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.

Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

You can believe in private property or national borders with logical consistency. But not both.

The key to money management. It’s making a lot of money when you’re right and minimizing it when you’re wrong.

It’s liquidity that moves market.

There’s just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.