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“Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist; because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to be innovative.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Most answers to the contrarian question are different ways of seeing the present; good answers are as close as we can come to looking into the future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Every monopoly is unique, but they usually share some combination of the following characteristics: proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition,”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Disruptive companies often pick fights they can’t win. Think of Napster:”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“But moving first is a tactic, not a goal.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“We are more fascinated today by statistical predictions of what the country will be thinking in a few weeks’ time than by visionary predictions of what the country will look like 10 or 20 years from now.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.”
― Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

“I’ve never liked euphemisms. I don’t say “passed away.” I say “dead.”
― Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

“I said, “No, you’re physically challenged. You’re breathing hard from climbing the stairs. I’m disabled.”
― Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists

“Mis pensamientos son estrellas con las que no puedo formar constelaciones.)”
― John Green, Bajo la misma estrella

“No puedes elegir si van a hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.”
― Lee Child, Personal

“More options, even good ones, can freeze us and make us retreat to the default plan,”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn’t likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change—the paralyzing part—is precisely in the details.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“When you want someone to behave in a new way, explain the “new way” clearly. Don’t assume the new moves are obvious.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“A pyramid signifies hierarchy, yet no hierarchy is evident in the Food Pyramid.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“Clarity dissolves resistance.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard