“Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.”

“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”

“Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”

“We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.”

“It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.”

“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”