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The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

Peter Thiel

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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
Banker
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Frankfurt/Main
Peter Andreas Thiel
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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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Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
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Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
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You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
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As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.
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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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The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.
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There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.
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A company does better the less it pays the CEO.
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Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
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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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American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.
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Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
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The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.
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Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
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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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Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends the best paths are new and untried.
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Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
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