“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“a great business is defined by its ability to generate cash flows in the future.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be… — 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
“a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. A new company’s… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Something needed to work—and work in a big way—if the future was going to be better at all.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future. — 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
You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.” — 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
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
“If we define the future as a time that looks different from the present, then most people aren’t expecting any future at… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Indefinite attitudes to the future explain what’s most dysfunctional in our world today. Process trumps substance: when people lack concrete plans to… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in 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 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