Time Quotes by Peter Thiel

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

— Peter Thiel

“Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.”

— Peter Thiel

“Something needed to work—and work in a big way—if the future was going to be better at all.”

— Peter Thiel

“VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies”

— Peter Thiel

“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others”

— Peter Thiel

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

— Peter Thiel

“In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.”

— Peter Thiel

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

— Peter Thiel

“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

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a…

— Peter Thiel

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

— Peter Thiel

“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

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and…

— Peter Thiel

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

“most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.”

— Peter Thiel

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

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

“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

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

“As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important…

— Peter Thiel

“Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes…

— Peter Thiel

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

You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is…

— Peter Thiel

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and…

— Peter Thiel

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

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

“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

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.…

— Peter Thiel

“a great business is defined by its ability to generate cash flows in the future.”

— Peter Thiel

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

— Peter Thiel

“If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .”

— Peter Thiel

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be…

— Peter Thiel

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way.…

— Peter Thiel

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

— Peter Thiel

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization,…

— Peter Thiel

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely…

— Peter Thiel

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

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or…

— Peter Thiel