Lessons from Peter Thiel
You could build the best version of an app that lets people order toilet paper from their iPhone. But iteration without a bold plan won’t take you from 0 to 1. A company is the strangest place of all for an indefinite optimist: why should you expect your own business to succeed without a plan to make it happen? Darwinism may be a fine theory in oth... See more
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
To build the next generation of companies, we must abandon the dogmas created after the crash. That doesn’t mean the opposite ideas are automatically true: you can’t escape the madness of crowds by dogmatically rejecting them. Instead ask yourself: how much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes? The most c... See more
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: “If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”
Timothy Ferriss • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Here's the one piece of advice Peter Thiel wishes he could give his younger self: there is no need to wait. If you have a 10-year plan, think carefully about whether you can achieve it in the next six months. Sometimes, this exercise will reveal that you really do have to take the long way. Other times, it will reveal that you’re telling yourself a
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