Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.
Peter ThielThe zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.
Peter ThielEVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin wonโt make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg wonโt create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you arenโt learning from them.
Peter ThielPeople working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They arenโt releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.
Peter Thiel