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Peter Thiel is a prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, and a key figure in the tech industry. He is known for his early investment in Facebook and his role in shaping the modern venture capital landscape.

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“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

Ifs Should Stills Important Growth Term Focus Missing Asking Decades Important Questions

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“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.”

People Thinking Should Long Government Long Time Profit Horizon Be Encouraged Non Profit

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“I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.”

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“The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.”

People Should Trying Wells Ideas School Taught Becoming Entrepreneur

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“Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.”

Ifs Should Believe Hard Problem Secret Don't Believe Better Future

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“Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.”

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“There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.”

People World Should Found Waiting Secret Our World

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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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“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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“But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.”

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“In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).”

Ifs Should Done Company Careers Organization Strategy Quitting Advancement Being Done

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.”

Should Company Core Competencies Outsourced

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

About the Author

Born: October 11, 1967
Known for: Entrepreneur
Quotes: 145

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FutureRelated source material

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