The lesson for business is that we need founders. If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme; we need unusual in… - Peter Thiel

we need unusual individuals to lead companies beyond mere incrementalism.

If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme;

This is why so many small and medium-sized businesses don’t use tools that bigger firms take for granted. It’s not that small business proprietors are unusually backward or that good tools don’t exist: distribution is the hidden bottleneck.

Ever since Justin Timberlake portrayed him in The Social Network, Sean has been perceived as one of the coolest people in America. JT is still more famous, but when he visits Silicon Valley, people ask if he’s Sean Parker.

if men were angels, no government would be necessary.