33 Peter Thiel Recommended Books

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"The mind is its own place and of itself can make a hell of heaven, and a heaven of hell." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"[The author] has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Accurately describes inequality in the past and present of countries like the United States." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"The devil shows up in Stalinist Russia, [...] and gives everybody what they want, and everything goes haywire." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"[The author's] best book." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Tells how the Nazis and the Soviets drove each other to ever more murderous atrocities as they fought to dominate Eastern Europe." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"I like the genre of past books written about the future." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"If you don't use your freedom of speech, one day you might find that it's gone. Buy this book while it's legal." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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Peter Thiel says The New Testament has influenced him more than The Old Testament. [Source]

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"Said that Christ obviously had to mislead people, since if he had not done so, the authorities might have tried to kill him." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"It can sometimes seem as if one must learn everything old before one can try anything new. [The author] does a masterful job showing that is not the case; we are lucky to have him as a guide." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"I like the genre of past books written about the future." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"For a fresh application of Mr. Girard’s insights into power politics, that great international theater of irrationality." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"I like the genre of past books written about the future." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"The great French thinker René Girard’s classic study of Fyodor Dostoevsky." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Peter [Thiel] would, at one point, pass me a copy of [this book], the book he had read as he’d mulled his options over." - Ryan Holiday [Source]

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"The early PayPal team worked well together because we were all the same kind of nerd. We all loved science fiction: Cryptonomicon was required reading." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"The future depends on human action." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?" - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Something in these pages planted itself deep into [Peter Thiel]’s mind when he first read it long ago." - Ryan Holiday [Source]

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"One of [Peter Thiel's] favorite novels." - Ryan Holiday [Source]

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"One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"Its message is evergreen: how scientists are directly attacking the problem of aging and death and why we should fight for life instead of accepting decay as inevitable." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"When I first read [Ayn Rand's books] in the late 80s, it felt pretty crazy. And in the last decades, it's in many ways felt much more correct." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"We [followers of Girard], had sort of a sense that we had figured out the truth about the world in a way that nobody else did." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"I like the genre of past books written about the future." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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"[The author] understands that strategy starts with invention. He can't tell you what to invent, but he can and does show what it takes for a new invention to become a valuable business." - Peter Thiel [Source]

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Peter Thiel quoted this book to the author. [Source]

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"All happy families are alike, and all unhappy families are unhappy in their own special way." - Peter Thiel [Source]