Selling your company to the media is a necessary part of selling it to everyone else. - Peter Thiel

Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can. Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Instead ask yourself: how much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes? The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.