Peter Thiel Quotes

You’ll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it’s important in general, but why you’re doing something important that no one else is going to get done. That’s the only thing that can make its importance unique.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

CURVA J DE UN FONDO DE CAPITAL RIESGO DE ÉXITO

successful people find value in unexpected places,

every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.

Or you can radically improve an existing solution: once you’re 10x better, you escape competition.

Inside a firm, people become obsessed with their competitors for career advancement. Then the firms themselves become obsessed with their competitors in the marketplace. Amid all the human drama, people lose sight of what matters and focus on their rivals instead.

El modo de hacerlo es dominar un pequeño nicho y expandirte a partir de ahí hacia tu ambiciosa visión a largo plazo.

For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them” (Matthew 25:29).

At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually prefer unlimited optionality; money is more valuable than anything you could possibly do with it. Only in a definite future is money a means to an end, no the end itself-

question received ideas and rethink business from scratch.

Pese a las historias de primerizos chefs de cocina convertidos en millonarios, la gente encuentra las participaciones poco atractivas. No son líquidas como el dinero en efectivo.

But I don’t think that’s true. 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 is that technology matters more.

Bob Dylan has said that he who is not busy being born is busy dying.