The best Quotes by Brock Pierce

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.

When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.

A billionaire is someone who can positively impact a billion lives.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota Forecast. Today: Sun. Tomorrow: Snow. Next Day: Tornado, probably.

Minnesota girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Most places would call it a crippling snowstorm. In Minnesota, we call it Tuesday.

Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

Minnesota: the only place where I get excited over a lake.

We're working on becoming more efficient with our energy usage, but those algorithms use as much energy as the whole country of Denmark.

Crypto is crashing even harder, with Bitcoin plummeting 67% from its high, which I found really interesting. Because for, like, the past ten years, every single crypto bro I've met has told me that crypto would protect me when the mainstream economy failed.

How do you get $1000 in cryptocurrency?
Invest $2000.

Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Give me your love and not your like!

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.

Everyone knows to be prepared for volatility in crypto, but your tweets this week show a clear disregard for the average working person, as hardworking people have their dreams liquidated over your public temper tantrums.

Slow but surely I come to the conclusion that billionaires aren't invested into the greater good for mankind.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

It's not technology that makes history, but the people who invented it.

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.

ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

High expectations are the key to everything.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.