Peter Thiel Quotes

Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

Si se les deja al margen, estarán predispuestos a reclamar valor en el corto plazo en lugar de ayudarte a crear más en el futuro.

a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization. If you want that kind of free rein from your board, blow it up to giant size. If you want an effective board, keep it small.

Jobs planned the iPod to be the first of a new generation of portable post-PC devices, but that secret was invisible to most people.

Every other country is afraid that China is going to take over the world; China is the only country afraid that it won’t.

valuable business must start by finding a niche and dominating a small market.

But the world we live in is dynamic: it’s possible to invent new and better things. Creative monopolists give customers more choices by adding entirely new categories of abundance to the world. Creative monopolies aren’t just good for the rest of society; they’re powerful engines for making it better.

This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.

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.

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

Una vez tengas un conjunto de clientes de referencia que estén utilizando con éxito tu producto, entonces puedes empezar el largo y metódico trabajo de apuntar hacia acuerdos cada vez mayores.

if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business

eBay también empezó dominando pequeños mercados de nicho.

de modo que la asignación de cantidades iguales parecería arbitraria e injusta desde el principio.

it enjoys strong network effects from its content ecosystem: thousands of developers write software for Apple devices because that’s where hundreds of millions of users are, and those users stay on the platform because it’s where the apps are.