The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere. - Peter Thiel

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At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels. '

Peter Thiel

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

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Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

Cash Flow, Look, Looks, Present, Value, Years

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

Ceo, Invest, Suit, Suits, Tech

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

Asking, Focus, Growth, Missing

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

Dream, Engineers, Matter, May, Selling, World

There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

Art, Experts, Grandmasters, Masters, Sales, Sight

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Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me. ' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.

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Peter David

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels. '

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Eckhart Tolle

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.

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Angela Carter

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

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Jonah Goldberg

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

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