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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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Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
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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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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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The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.
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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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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
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If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
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I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
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We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
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Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
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