Books

- Page-6: The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, companies will fail in the future no matter how big their profits remain today. Today's "best practices" lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

- Page-8: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

- Page-11: Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can. Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

- Page-13: If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

AUTHOR

Peter Thiel