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| Zero to One By Peter Thiel |
Information About Zero to One
Name of Book : Zero to One : Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Author : Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Genre : Politics, Business
Pages : 224 Pages
Language : English
Country : United States
Publication date : September 16, 2014
Publisher : Crown Business
Quotes From Zero to One By Peter Thiel
1. “ The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
2. “ I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
3. “ Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
4. “ Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
5. “ The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
6. “ When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
7. “ The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
8. “ Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
9. “ Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
10. “ First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund. ”
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11. “ In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
12. “ If you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
13. “ What important truth do very few people agree with you on? ”
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14. “ eople always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don’t want it to end. ”
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15. “ Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. ”
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16. “ Contrarian thinking doesn’t make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up. ”
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17. “ People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
18. “ Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth. ”
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19. “ There are exactly 2 kinds of businesses in this world. Businesses that are perfectly competitive and businesses that are monopolies. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
20. “ If you’re a non-monopolist, you will rhetorically describe your market as super small, you’re the only person in that market. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
21. “ The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
22. “ You’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
23. “ Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. ”
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24. “ 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. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
25. “ These very small markets are quite underrated. ”
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26. “ The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
27. “ Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
28. “ All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
29. “ 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. ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel
30. “ Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule ”
— Zero to One By Peter Thiel