If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?
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