Peter Thiel Quotes

Great companies have secrets: specific reasons for success that other people don’t see.

Es imposible encontrar secretos si no los buscas.

el sistema de estrellas Michelin generan una cultura de intensa competitividad que puede volver locos a los cocineros.

If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-era advertising was obviously wasteful, so the only sustainable growth is viral growth.

No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.

The smartphones that distract us from our surroundings also distract us from the fact that our surroundings are strangely old:

There’s nothing wrong with a CEO who can sell, but if he actually looks like a salesman, he’s probably bad at sales and worse at tech.

planning is arrogant and inflexible. Instead you should try things out,

Céntrate en el producto, no en las ventas Si tu producto necesita de publicidad

Our schools teach the opposite: institutionalized education traffics in a kind of homogenized, generic knowledge. Everybody who passes through the American school system learns not to think in power law terms. Every high school course period lasts 45 minutes whatever the subject. Every student proceeds at a similar pace. At college, model students obsessively hedge their futures by assembling a suite of exotic and minor skills. Every university believes in “excellence,” and hundred-page course catalogs arranged alphabetically according to arbitrary departments of knowledge seem designed to reassure you that “it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.” That is completely false. It does matter what you do. 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.

4. Sales matters just as much as product.

we don’t live in a normal world; we live under a power law.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

El siguiente capítulo trata de cómo utilizar una mente clara para construir un negocio monopolístico.

the more people believe in efficiency, the bigger the bubbles get.)