It doesn’t matter how many people know about you or how they find out about you. It matters how many sign up. If handing out flyers on the street corner accomplishes that, then consider it growth hack...
Is there a chance? Do I have a shot? Is there something I can do?
In the years he conspired against Gawker, Thiel would come to see the U.S. legal system differently. He later said that, before the case against Gawker, he had believed that the problem in America was...
In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on t...
In other words, the best marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business that fulfills a real and compelling need for a real and defined group of people—no matter how much tweaking an...
In my experience, the books that tend to flop upon release are those where the author goes into a cave for a year to write it, then hands it off to the publisher for release. They hope for a hit that...
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad...
In every situation, that which blocks our path actually presents a new path with a new part of us.
In actuality, the will has a lot more to do with surrender than with strength. Try God willing over the will to win or willing it into existence, for even those attributes can be broken. True will is...
In Silicon Valley, start-ups don’t launch with polished, finished businesses. Instead, they release their Minimum Viable Product (MVP)—the most basic version of their core idea with only one or two es...
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Just
If we ever do want to become wise, it comes from the questioning and from humility—not, as many would like to think, from certainty, mistrust, and arrogance.
If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in...
I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The
I was there to deface billboards, specifically billboards I had designed and paid for. Not that I’d expected to do anything like this, but there I was, doing it.
I have the power within me to keep that out. I can see the truth.
He would make much of his fortune during these market fluctuations—because he could see while others could not. This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet’s famous adage to be fearful when others ar...
He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears, wrote Seneca,
Getting upset is like continuing the dream while you’re awake. The thing that provoked you wasn’t real—but your reaction was. And so from the fake comes real consequences. Which is why you need to wak...
For your work to have truth in it, it must come from truth. If you want to be more than a flash in the pan, you must be prepared to focus on the long term.