All Peter Thiel Quotes
- Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. Best
- The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths. All
- If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth. Behind
- As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible. Adjacent
- Moving first is a tactic, not a goal. Firsts
- Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. Beginning
- Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit. Company
- The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined. Best
- A company does better the less it pays the CEO. Better
- Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced. Any
- There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind. Businesses
- Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried. Best
- Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit. Ceo
- Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing… Anyone
- Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company—probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's… All
- As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. Always Tried
- I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of… Aversion
- I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something… Breakthrough
- In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity… All
- People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot… All