“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
“leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“An extreme representative of this view is Ted Kaczynski, infamously known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski was a child prodigy who enrolled at… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“The only good answers are specific to your company, so you won’t find them in this book. But there are two general… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but… — 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
“If your goal is to never make a mistake in your life, you shouldn’t look for secrets. The prospect of being lonely… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
