Zero to One Quotes

“If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Competition means no profit for everybody , no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival so why do people believe that competition is healthy ? .......
....The more we compete the less we gain .”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“(Other investors were in even more of a hurry. A South Korean firm wired us $5 million without first negotiating a deal or signing any documents. When I tried to return the money, they wouldn’t tell me where to send it.)”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“cleantech was even more of a social phenomenon than an environmental imperative.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd;”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“reducing human capabilities into specialized tasks that computers can be trained to conquer one by one.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“That seems impressive—until you remember that an average four-year-old can do it flawlessly.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“All of us want to believe that we make up our own minds, that sales doesn’t work on us. But it’s not true.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“There’s a reason for these redescriptions: none of us wants to be reminded when we’re being sold.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Anybody who would be more powerfully swayed by free laundry pickup or pet day care would be a bad addition to your team.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“the more people believe in efficiency, the bigger the bubbles get.)”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“strategically humble.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“One of our engineers actually designed a bomb for this purpose; when he presented the schematic at a team meeting, calmer heads prevailed and the proposal was attributed to extreme sleep deprivation.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“everybody loses when the war isn’t one worth fighting.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Sales matters just as much as product.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Something needed to work—and work in a big way—if the future was going to be better at all.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The shift to a service economy was protracted and painful.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“our surroundings are strangely old:”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“China is the paradigmatic example of globalization;”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away. The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear: if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. New”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“If we define the future as a time that looks different from the present, then most people aren’t expecting any future at all.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future