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The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
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Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
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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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Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
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