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:

…a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it.

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Zero to One:

In philosophy, politics, and business, too, arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.

73

Zero to One:

Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.

74

Zero to One:

Darwinism may be fine in theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

79

Zero to One:

…every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.

79

Zero to One:

A business with a good definite plan will always be underrated in a world where people see the future as random.

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Zero to One:

We have to find our way back to a definite future, and the Western world needs nothing short of a cultural revolution to do it.

81

Zero to One:

A startup is a large endeavor over which you can have definite mastery.

81

Zero to One:

…never underestimate exponential growth.

82

Zero to One:

…monopoly businesses capture more value than millions of undifferentiated competitors.

83