All Peter Thiel Quotes
- Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying. Big
- We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better. Better
- A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it. Apples
- Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then… Anticipate
- But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… Actually Useful
- You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing… Attract
- It's a horribly mismanaged company-probably a lot of pot smoking going on there. Company
- We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness Describe
- Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task… All
- Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot. Business
- People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren't releasing new PR announcements every day.… Alone
- Luck is like an atheistic word for God... Atheistic
- Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries. Companies
- I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. Bitcoin
- Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution… Any
- All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition. All
- Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. Business
- The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to… Becomes
- In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable. Globalization
- In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes… Advancement