All 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… Anti Feminist
- 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… Administrators
- I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. Believe
- 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… Cases
- Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field. Aging
- We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. Car
- Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. Brilliant
- The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. All
- 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… Aren
- 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… All
- 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… Anyone
- Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined. Airline
- You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable. Categories
- The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere. Funny
- 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… Banking
- 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… Accurate
- 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… Debt
- 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… Able
- 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… Auspicious
- 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… Angry
- Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it. Approaching
- All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. All
- Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier… Achievement
- We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today. Better
- Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. Causes