All Peter Thiel Quotes
- What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Agree
- What valuable company is nobody building? Building
- My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth… Answer
- The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth. Failure
- Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in… Anthology
- Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed… Always Tried
- In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to… All
- The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. Businesses
- Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school. Bombs
- Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. Indefinite
- A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over… Agency
- Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does… Completely
- Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just… Any
- Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead. Alive
- The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition. Focus
- 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