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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

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Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

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I think it is an approach that is very ill suited to this particular problem. This whole issue of presenting it as a moral issue to my mind that actually is a capitulation to a kind of neo-liberal ideology which tries to reduce all collective action to cases of individual choices.
Recorded Nitin Sethi, Business Standard, 20 July 2016 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
I don’t like live music. (I know that is a very despicable opinion.) I love great recordings.
Recorded personal website, Derek Sivers source ↗
Abby Wambach United States international footballer, 2001–2015
For power to stay in power, the powerful have to impose some level of fear over the people that they are in power over. If you have power, you make decisions and if you make decisions you can probably keep power.
Recorded Matthew Hall, Guardian interview, The Guardian, 9 April 2019 source ↗
Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
And I get so upset when I hear that, because are you saying: Poor people only want a roof over their heads and want food? That poor people are not interested in beauty and rights and fairness and justice?
Recorded Koyo Kouoh, Koyo and Albie in conversation, The Albie Collection, 25 July 2024 source ↗

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