The importance of a strong founding team: Thiel believes that the founding team is crucial to the success of a startup. He advises entrepreneurs to carefully select co-founders who complement their skills and share their vision, as building a successful company is a challenging and long-term endeavor.

Do not be passive before circumstances, space and time.

Your job as a manager is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.

The moral imperative of life is grow or die.

Art is the generous act of making things better by doing something that might not work.

Anyone can be a leader. Exemplary leaders exist everywhere, in every geography, industry, and demographic. In the best organizations, everyone is encouraged to act like a leader

We now see people as reasons for celebration, as possibilities in the making, as fellow strugglers who sometimes fail miserably and do the darndest things, as opportunities to give and receive our common life in Christ.

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.

My job isn’t just to win basketball games, it is to lead my team , to take care of my men.

Don't tell people what to do; offer stories and help guide them to the best decisions for them.