Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education… People are on these tracks. They are getting these… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“This describes Americans today. In middle school, we’re encouraged to start hoarding “extracurricular activities.” In high school, ambitious students compete even harder… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“if your company can be summed up by its opposition to already existing firms, it can’t be completely new and it’s probably not going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
