The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.
Peter ThielHigher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Peter ThielIf people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
Peter ThielThinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.
Peter Thiel