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What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.
Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
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Frankfurt/Main
Peter Andreas Thiel
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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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Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
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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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