Peter Thiel

"Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page won't make a search engine."

"The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside."

"Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1."

"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"

"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself."

"In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable."

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

"Competition is for losers."

"A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed."

"Monopoly is the condition of every successful business."

"If you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business."

"All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition."