“The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him seriously. The voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally.”
Author
Peter Thiel
10 quotes
“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 more limited than people think. And the question is why.”
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“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
“Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.”
“All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.”
“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”
“the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.”
“The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.”