If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future. — 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
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil &… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want… — 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… — 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
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
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
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America. — Peter Thiel Copy Share
