If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

How do we make people's lives better unless we find the truth of what works and what doesn't?

We try to reward people according to the value they create, the value they create in society and for the company.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful.

We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day, and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success because success tends to breed complacency and a lack of humility.

The only way you improve is to try new things...

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much!

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people, and what they value.

My biggest crisis is that I don’t understand what young people like.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn’t happen