“Because that is what a startup has to do: question received ideas and rethink business from scratch.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Company culture” doesn’t exist apart from the company itself: no company has a culture; every company is a culture. A startup is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. A new company’s… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Every startup is small at the start. Every monopoly dominates a large share of its market. Therefore, every startup should start with… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Competition means no profit for everybody , no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival so why do people believe that competition… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I’ve learned directly as a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“To anticipate likely sources of misalignment in any company, it’s useful to distinguish between three concepts: • Ownership: who legally owns a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“STARTUP THINKING New technology tends to come from new ventures—startups. From the Founding Fathers in politics to the Royal Society in science… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“if your company can be summed up by its opposition to already existing firms, it can’t be completely new and it’s probably not going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?” — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America. — Peter Thiel Copy Share
