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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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Satya Nadella Chief executive of Microsoft
I think the cycles of demand and supply in this particular case, you can't really predict, right? The point is: what's the secular trend? The secular trend is what Sam (OpenAI CEO) said, which is, at the ... .
Recorded unknown, interview, Tom's Hardware, 2 November 2025 source ↗
Alessia Cara Canadian singer-songwriter
It’s the world that's messed up, and it’s the world’s twisted view of what beauty should be. They need to change, it’s never you.
Recorded Danielle Sinay, Teen Vogue, 13 September 2016 source ↗
Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
First of all, I believe that the results of science should be fully given to the community. Fully. Absolutely. And all types of competition such as who did it first and “I cannot tell him because he will copy me” and so on – these are not arguments. Society financed this science, if not directly, then the education and the way I got there, so society should get back what I found. It is not my finding. In this, I am not very popular, I must say.
Recorded LW, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings source ↗

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