The question

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

Originally asked

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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Andre Russell

Jamaican cricketer; West Indies all-rounder and twice a T20 World Cup winner

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I believe in Test cricket, but at the end of the day, I’m a professional. It wasn’t part of my journey. I have no regrets because it wasn’t me that turned my back.

interviewer, The Guardian interview, 5 June 2025 source ↗

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Alexander Armstrong English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer
Overpopulation. I put my hand up… I am the problem, I have three children. This is grossly irresponsible.
Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗
Ephraim Asili Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ
I just don't really see the dialectic between inside and outside, and corporate and revolutionary, as being as cut and dry as I used to.
Recorded Metal Magazine 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 ↗
Ursula K. Le Guin Novelist, poet and essayist
Sometimes it just seems like the more women tell the truth, the less men want to hear it.
Recorded Zoë Carpenter, The Nation, 5 October 2016 source ↗

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