Episode Archive
"You don't need motivation — you need to have a very clear understanding about your identity and only take on work that that identity is loyal to. Because the days up here, there's no motivation in the world that gets you up here on a bad day."
"I want a world where people come into power, go to the room with the money, open the door — and the room is empty."
"If there was one thing I wanted to change in this world, it would have nothing to do with governments, laws, or taxes — it would simply be the way we relate to our children."
"One day we will generate more revenue from the digital realm than from the physical world."
"We asked ourselves: if we were terminally ill and had two years to live, what would we do? The answer was go and travel the world in a truck. So we built one."
"Not everyone has a sense of self-control. That's why it's easier to live according to rules someone else already set. It takes the burden of responsibility away."
"I describe myself as made in Hong Kong. I lived there for 61 years. And now I want to bring Asia to the UK's door."
"I would like to see the world as a supermarket. You go around and pick what suits you best. Governments should be competing for you as a customer, not holding you as a hostage."
"Think about how depressing it would be to know everything we know about Fiat and not have Bitcoin. There are people who went through that. Bitcoin is the life raft they never had."
"It's all theoretical until it happens. And now we're literally handing over keys to people who own property in a free private city in Honduras."
"You've got to understand. These people really do see most of us as useless eaters."
"12 hours before everything collapsed I was in a club celebrating with friends, beautiful girls, good times. If you had told me the banks would be closed and the peso worthless by morning, I would have bet everything against it. And then it happened."
"We have one unique selling point that no one else can offer. We offer freedom. And that alone will outlast any temporary conflict we have with Croatia."
"I define addiction as any behavior that helps you avoid feeling your feelings. By that definition, most of us are addicts. And Fiat money is one of the biggest drugs of all."
"They fired everyone overnight... made their entire operation dormant, closed all the hotels - it was kind of like a power move, a bit vindictive."
"Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else." (quoting Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
"When inflation was 13%, how many people got a 13% pay rise? Hardly anyone. Right? So we all got poorer. Right? So wouldn't it be great to have something in your life that's counteracting that effect? "
"It is sometimes hard to have a whole country reinvent itself. This process is too slow and too cumbersome with too much friction and no vested interest. We need more special economic zones and I think they play an enormous role in the whole progress of world civilization... exploring ways of doing business and way...
"DMCC has been named global free zone of the year for 10 years now... it's a mixed use zone. It doesn't switch the lights off at 5 pm a nd everybody goes home. It's got the capability to drive revenue and to drive activities 24/7. I think that's a really important part of understanding the evolution of very success...
"The only country that takes you for granted & will try to force you to stay is your home country. Everyone else is fighting to attract you."
"This is how memes are born. You cannot predict them, you cannot control them and you cannot regulate them. They have to come from your heart."
