Peter Thiel

Great tech opportunities happen only once.

— Peter Thiel

Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.

— Peter Thiel

“The shift to a service economy was protracted and painful.”

— Peter Thiel

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— Peter Thiel

“invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit—got”

— Peter Thiel

“it does something others cannot.”

— Peter Thiel

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

— Peter Thiel

The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.

— Peter Thiel

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

— Peter Thiel

“most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.”

— Peter Thiel

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild…

— Peter Thiel

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

— Peter Thiel

“if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.”

— Peter Thiel

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years…

— Peter Thiel

“every single company in a good venture portfolio must have the potential to succeed at vast scale.”

— Peter Thiel

“The only good answers are specific to your company, so you won’t find them in this book. But there are two general…

— Peter Thiel

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good…

— Peter Thiel

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years…

— Peter Thiel

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which…

— Peter Thiel

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and…

— Peter Thiel

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has…

— Peter Thiel

“a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization. If…

— Peter Thiel

“You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins…

— Peter Thiel

“Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes…

— Peter Thiel

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new…

— Peter Thiel

“EVERYBODY SELLS Nerds might wish that distribution could be ignored and salesmen banished to another planet. All of us want to believe…

— Peter Thiel

“We didn’t assemble a mafia by sorting through résumés and simply hiring the most talented people. I had seen the mixed results…

— Peter Thiel

“When Yahoo! offered to buy Facebook for $1 billion in July 2006, I thought we should at least consider it. But Mark…

— Peter Thiel

“Facebook, the best investment in our 2005 fund, returned more than all the others combined. Palantir, the second-best investment, is set to…

— Peter Thiel

University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's…

— Peter Thiel

“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics,…

— Peter Thiel

“You’ve probably heard about “first mover advantage”: if you’re the first entrant into a market, you can capture significant market share while…

— Peter Thiel

“Creating value is not enough—you also need to capture some of the value you create. This means that even very big businesses…

— Peter Thiel

I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically.…

— Peter Thiel

“Every culture has a myth of decline from some golden age, and almost all peoples throughout history have been pessimists. Even today…

— Peter Thiel

“Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today. Process trumps substance: when people lack concrete plans to…

— Peter Thiel

“When Baby Boomers grow up and write books to explain why one or another individual is successful, they point to the power…

— Peter Thiel

“The government used to be able to coordinate complex solutions to problems like atomic weaponry and lunar exploration. But today, after 40…

— Peter Thiel

“An extreme representative of this view is Ted Kaczynski, infamously known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski was a child prodigy who enrolled at…

— Peter Thiel