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Thinking Quotes by Peter Thiel
- Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
- The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren't releasing new PR announcements every day.…
- I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.
- I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something…
- People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot…
- If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.
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