“I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the...” — Charlie Shrem Quote

I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.

I'm investing. I'm taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero - which, it's an experiment, it could - I won't be on the street.

Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.

A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.

I spend thousands of dollars on lawyers every day just to make sure that I'm not gonna go to jail.

Nike is Nike. Adidas is Adidas. I've played in their circuits and stuff like that, but now it's a business. You don't want just product. You're not a kid anymore. You're really trying to get bank. That's about it.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.