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."

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Abby Wambach said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Matthew Hall, Guardian interview, The Guardian, 9 April 2019 source ↗

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Yvon Chouinard Founder of Patagonia
Everything man does creates more harm than good. We have to accept that fact and not delude ourselves into thinking something is sustainable.
Recorded Jeff Beer, interview, Fast Company, 16 October 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 ↗
Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
You can’t make decisions based upon whether it will be popular or not. You have to make decisions based on whether they’re right.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Alexa Chung English television presenter
I don't want to look sexy in photographs. I think it's an easy option. I'm so sick of girls pushing their boobs up in Myspace photographs. I hate the way women want to be "hot" all the time.
Recorded Eva Wiseman, Women, The Guardian, 6 July 2008 source ↗

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