Top 40 Brock Pierce Quotes

If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn’t play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that’s more fun.

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

It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it’ll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.

My first memory is of being on the set of a commercial when I was 3.

Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.

The Internet didn’t become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly – this made it accessible.

I’m going to keep innovating.

I am really surprised bitcoin isn’t more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn’t tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.

I’m normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they’re used to getting an automatic three hours alone.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

The real problem with Puerto Rico is that it keeps losing its best and brightest. It keeps losing its leaders and its future leaders due to a lack of opportunity.

Facebook has revolutionized social games, as friends can see your points, achievements and in game events.

I’m here on this planet to live in service to humanity.

I care about how many people’s lives I’ve positively impacted. That’s the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

We’re going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He’s a hammer. And when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He’s very sure and very smart. Very driven, very patriotic. He’s not most of the things that people say.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.

Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.

Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.

Being able to borrow against one’s crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market.

What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?

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

The Internet wasn’t useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

Has the Internet changed our lives? Have mobile phones changed our lives? The blockchain is something that is that transformative.

When you have to start over from scratch, you can do it very differently than if you have this big thing that’s kinda been building on top of itself for ages and ages.

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

I think every stock in the world is going to end up being a security token.

I live life like it’s a role-playing game.

I realized I was a gamer when I didn’t sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.

AngelList Syndicates are perfectly aligned with Bitcoin’s ideology. They democratize the system so everyone has access to high value dealflow; it’s the power of the people.

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man. He didn’t like me to say it, but he was on my payroll.

Security tokens are going to give birth to a quadrillion dollar market. This is because we will see the tokenization of the world’s fiat money, debt market, real estate, equities, and art.

I played ‘Mortal Kombat’ competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.

I only help the superheroes, I don’t help the villains.

A unicorn is a community that’s positively impacted the lives of a billion people.