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:

…if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.

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Zero to One:

The fatal temptation is to describe your market extremely narrowly so that you dominate it by definition.

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Zero to One:

In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything.

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Zero to One:

The competitive ecosystem pushes people toward ruthlessness or death.

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Zero to One:

Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.

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Zero to One:

Creative monopolies aren’t just good for the rest of society; they’re powerful engines for making it better.

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Zero to One:

…the history of progress is a history of better monopoly businesses replacing incumbents.

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Zero to One:

If your industry is in a competitive equilibrium, the death of your business won’t matter to the world; some undifferentiated competitor will always be ready to take your place.

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Zero to One:

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

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Zero to One:

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

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