“The police aren't hired to protect you. They're hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That's their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they're going to make you safe? They weren't hired to make you safe.”

“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

“Insight and drive are all you need. Everything else can be hired.”

“You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.”

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

“The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.”

“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.”

“If you don’t know where you are heading, no employer is going to hire you to give you a lift to ‘Don’t know where land’!”

“You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.”

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”