“If we define the future as a time that looks different from the present, then most people aren’t expecting any future at… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Something needed to work—and work in a big way—if the future was going to be better at all.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization,… — 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
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — 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
