Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Brock Pierce

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.

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

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

As a gamer I know that my least favorite ad types are offer walls.

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

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

I've been very blessed in my life.

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

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a way that it's done with the right intention.

My name is Brock and it also means 'broke.' I'm going for broke - I intend to give everything away of everything I have over time.

The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.

When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.

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

Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.

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

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur.

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

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

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.

I care a great deal about what happens to Bitcoin.

I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.

I don't care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.

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.

It's often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team and the critical functions that the team needs to be successful. Storytelling is normally not on the list.

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

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.

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

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.

I built a supply chain of 400,000 people in China to play games professionally to mine digital currency.

Puerto Ricans are so well educated, they're so capable, they're so competent, but due to a lack of opportunity, when you graduate from college, you leave. Puerto Rico's number one export is human beings; Puerto Ricans!

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

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

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

Two-thirds of the world's population is unbanked or underbanked. Imagine if you had all your bank accounts shut down today, if you had all your credit cards shut off today, Paypal, Venmo, etc. What would life be like? And that's a problem that most of the world faces if you're in Latin America, Africa or South East Asia.

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.

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

I'm going to keep innovating.

I don't need to amass a ton of wealth for myself.

Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.

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

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.

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.

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

I have a lot of people who want to work for me.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

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

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.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

We're here to take our skills - our superpowers - and figure out how to help Puerto Rico, the Earth and the people.

I obviously have been very involved in creating a number of tokens going all the way back to Mastercoin.

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.

Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and produce more for themselves, storing value for their own benefit. I play a different game. A game I call 'compounding impact.' How do you make a positive impact in the world?

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

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.

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