Peter Thiel Quotes

Every living thing is just a random iteration on some other organism, and the best iterations win.

proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding

The hazards of imitative competition may partially explain why individuals with an Asperger’s-like social ineptitude seem to be at an advantage in Silicon Valley today. If you’re less sensitive to social cues, you’re less likely to do the same things as everyone else around you. If you’re interested in making things or programming computers, you’ll be less afraid to pursue those activities single-mindedly and thereby become incredibly good at them.

More than that, internal peace is what enables a startup to survive at all. When a startup fails, we often imagine it succumbing to predatory rivals in a competitive ecosystem. But every company is also its own ecosystem, and factional strife makes it vulnerable to outside threats. Internal conflict is like an autoimmune disease: the technical cause of death may be pneumonia, but the real cause remains hidden from plain view.

Como sucede al actuar, la venta funciona mejor cuando está oculta.

Con diferencia, lo peor que puedes hacer es tener un consejo demasiado grande.

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.

... the phenomenon of serial entrepreneurship would seem to call into question our tendency to explain success as the product of chance.

By definition, a secret hasn’t been vetted by the mainstream.

Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities.

Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake.

The polar opposite business cliché warns that “the best product doesn’t always win.

Una buena estrategia empresarial de ventas empieza siendo pequeña, como debe ser: un nuevo cliente puede estar de acuerdo en convertirse en tu mejor cliente, pero rara vez estará a gusto firmando un acuerdo completamente fuera de escala con respecto a lo que has vendido anteriormente.

En una sala de juntas, menos es más. Cuanto más pequeño sea el consejo, más fácil es para los directivos comunicarse, alcanzar el consenso y ejercitar una supervisión efectiva.

Everybody should have known that the mania was unsustainable; the most “successful” companies seemed to embrace a sort of anti-business model where they lost money as they grew.