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In the developed world, techn...

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

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The business model piece is w...

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Beginning with brand rather t...

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Society is secretly driven by...

Society is secretly driven by sales

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All happy companies are diffe...

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Every university…seem[s] to r...

Every university…seem[s] 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 at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Most people are average. Foun...

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Never invest in a tech CEO th...

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

University administrators are...

University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

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Higher education holds itself...

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

When you are starting a new b...

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.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

The best entrepreneurs know t...

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Of the six people who started...

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

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The biggest secret in venture...

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

I no longer believe that free...

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Competition is overrated. In ...

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

What nerds miss is that it ta...

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

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Secrets are hard but solvable...

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

Technologies like PayPal fost...

Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.

Peter Thiel 127 quotes

EVERY MOMENT IN business happ...

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....