I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own… — 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
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
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
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important… — 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
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
