If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that… — 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
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 biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of… — 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
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
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
