Peter Thiel

Looking back at my ambition to become a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an alibi for the present.

At this moment in your life you know fewer limits, fewer taboos and fewer fears than you will ever in the future. So do not squander your ignorance.

Live each day as if you will live forever.

While doing new things is difficult, it is far from impossible.

If you're starting a company, you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition. Competition is for losers.

All happy companies are different because they're doing something very unique. All unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness that is competition.

Start with a really small market and take over that whole market, and then over time find ways to expand that market in concentric circles.

Don't always go through the tiny little door that everyone's trying to rush through. Maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that no one's taking.