Ben Casnocha quotes:

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, youâ??re not accomplishing very much.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.