Book Titles

Zero to One
Notes on startups, or how to build the future

By Peter Thiel

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-3929-8
Categories: Future, Success

111 Quotes Found

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Zero to One:

The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.

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Zero to One:

Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level.

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Zero to One:

…successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.

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Zero to One:

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

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Zero to One:

Properly understood, any new and better way of doing things is technology.

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Zero to One:

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

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Zero to One:

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work…

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Zero to One:

The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.

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Zero to One:

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

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Zero to One:

Creating value is not enough – you also need to capture some of the value you create.

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