Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a renowned American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal, known for his early investment in Facebook and his influential role in the technology and finance industries.
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
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
Edward Shepherd Creasy
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Holy Bible
Peter Thiel says The New Testament has influenced him more than The Old Testament.
Anonymous
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Ego Is the Enemy
Peter Thiel quoted this book to the author.
Ryan Holiday
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Dangerous
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
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Psychopolitics
For a fresh application of Mr. Girard’s insights into power politics, that great international theater of irrationality. - Peter Thiel
Jean-Michel Oughourlian
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The American Challenge
I like the genre of past books written about the future. - Peter Thiel
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
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The Master and Margarita
The devil shows up in Stalinist Russia, [...] and gives everybody what they want, and everything goes haywire. - Peter Thiel
Mikhail Bulgakov
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7 Powers
[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
Hamilton Helmer
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Accurately describes inequality in the past and present of countries like the United States. - Peter Thiel
Thomas Piketty
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Discourses on Livy
Something in these pages planted itself deep into [Peter Thiel]’s mind when he first read it long ago. - Ryan Holiday
Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Reasonableness of Christianity
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
John Locke
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Paradise Lost
The mind is its own place and of itself can make a hell of heaven, and a heaven of hell. - Peter Thiel
John Milton
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The Sovereign Individual
One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal. - Peter Thiel
James Dale Davidson
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The New Atlantis
I like the genre of past books written about the future. - Peter Thiel
Sir Francis Bacon
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Cryptonomicon
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
Neal Stephenson
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The Diamond Age
I like the genre of past books written about the future. - Peter Thiel
Neal Stephenson
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The Great Illusion
I like the genre of past books written about the future. - Peter Thiel
Norman Angell
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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
Rene Girard
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The Decadent Society
Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future? - Peter Thiel
Ross Gregory Douthat
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The City and the Stars
One of [Peter Thiel's] favorite novels. - Ryan Holiday
Arthur C. Clarke
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Life After Google
The future depends on human action. - Peter Thiel
George Gilder
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100 Plus
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
Sonia Arrison
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Resurrection from the Underground
The great French thinker René Girard’s classic study of Fyodor Dostoevsky. - Peter Thiel
Rene Girard
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
[The author] has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage. - Peter Thiel
Ben Horowitz
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Bloodlands
Tells how the Nazis and the Soviets drove each other to ever more murderous atrocities as they fought to dominate Eastern Europe. - Peter Thiel
Timothy Snyder
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Atlas Shrugged
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
Ayn Rand
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The Messianic Character of American Education
[The author's] best book. - Peter Thiel
Rousas John Rushdoony
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Originals
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
Adam Grant
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Anna Karenina
All happy families are alike, and all unhappy families are unhappy in their own special way. - Peter Thiel
Leo Tolstoy
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