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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: 56
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
Banker
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Frankfurt/Main
Peter Andreas Thiel
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The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.
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Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
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Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
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There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.
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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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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
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I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for governments and it's true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.
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Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
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University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.
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A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.
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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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For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.
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I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
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All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
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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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Society is secretly driven by sales
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No company has a culture every company is a culture.
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Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
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