I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures. — 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… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
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 that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big… — 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
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
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest… — 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
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge… — 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
The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover,… — 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
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time,… — 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
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
There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I'm always very excited about trying to do something on next-generation biotechnology and life sciences because I think if we can cure… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with… — 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 working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren't releasing new PR… — 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
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