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
Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in… — 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
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
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
“In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for… — 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
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
![“Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in…” quote by Peter Thiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ce/peter-thiel-1311_doe_every-university-seem-s-to-reassure-you_883942.jpg)
