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Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Peter Thiel

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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
Banker
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Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
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Frankfurt/Main
Peter Andreas Thiel
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Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.
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People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
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There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.
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Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
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There's been a lot companies that have shown zero to one kind of growth in the computer, internet software age. Facebook and Google are zero to one companies. Apple's iPhone was the first smartphone that really works, and of course, then you scale it horizontally, but the vertical component was really critical. Space X would also be one.
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Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
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A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.
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Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.
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Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
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No company has a culture every company is a culture.
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I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.
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Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
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When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
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Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends the best paths are new and untried.
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My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
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Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
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We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
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People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.
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If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
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In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
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