Famous Quote by Peter Thiel

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a…

— Peter Thiel

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily…

— Peter Thiel

I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and…

— Peter Thiel

“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others”

— Peter Thiel

“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,…

— Peter Thiel

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that…

— Peter Thiel

“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and…

— Peter Thiel

“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.”

— Peter Thiel

“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.”

— Peter Thiel

“if your company can be summed up by its opposition to already existing firms, it can’t be completely new and it’s probably not going…

— Peter Thiel

“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?”

— Peter Thiel

“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the…

— Peter Thiel