Peter Thiel Quotes

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• Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it. Approaching
• All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. All
• 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… Achievement
• We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today. Better
• Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. Causes
• What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Agree
• What valuable company is nobody building? Building
• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth… Answer
• The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth. Failure
• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in… Anthology
• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed… Always Tried
• In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to… All
• The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. Businesses
• Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school. Bombs
• Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. Indefinite
• A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over… Agency
• 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… Completely
• 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 consists of just… Any
• Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead. Alive
• The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition. Focus

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