Peter Thiel Quotes
- Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians…
- University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption…
- I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
- I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's…
- Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.
- We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
- Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
- The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t…
- All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape…
- For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their…
- Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
- You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.
- The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.
- Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional…
- The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty…
- In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a…
- Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time…
- There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem…
- You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used…