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
The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
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
The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
For a new payment product, you always have to ask, how much better is it than the current solution? So when we… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind. — 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
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years… — 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
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness — 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
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
A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years… — 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
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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