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

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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. more

“Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”

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

“The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.”

Knows World Social Common Hollywood Suspects Zero Valleys Accurate Social Network Silicon Silicon Valley Portrayal Dysfunctional Relationship

Author:Peter Thiel

“In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.”

World Years Problem Next Wealth Growing Debt Get Away Printing Printing Money

Author:Peter Thiel

“Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.”

People Has Beens Able Company Gone Window Decided Harvard

Author:Peter Thiel

“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.”

Ifs Moments Seems Company

Author:Peter Thiel

“You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It’s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it’s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it’s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you’re riding a subway from the nineteenth century.”

People World Used Century Bird Cat Angry Available Missions Checks Around The World Riding Pigs Halfway Apollo Mayors Nineteenth Century Iphone Subway Computing Angry Birds

Author:Peter Thiel

“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”

Past Scholar Great Future

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

“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.”

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

“We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.”

Needs Mean Today Granted

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

“Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.”

Past Opportunity Causes Copies Rivalry

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

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