Peter Thiel Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started. This
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
when people lack concrete plans to carry out, they use formal rules to assemble a portfolio of various options.
In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition,
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
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.
So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven't been standardized and institutionalized?
The era of cornucopian hope was relabeled as an era of crazed greed and declared to be definitely over.
I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
disruption has recently transmogrified into a self-congratulatory buzzword for anything posing as trendy and new.
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
No sector will ever be so important that merely participating in it will be enough to build a great company.
only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.
As we said, even the best venture investors have a portfolio, but investors who understand the power law make as few investments as possible.
College students can become extremely skilled at a few specialties, but many never learn what to do with those skills in the wider world.
many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth. They have an excuse: growth is easy to measure, but durability isn't.
All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
There's no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
...a lone genius might create a classic work of art or literature, but he could never create an entire industry.
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience.
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.
to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you'll give up on trying to master it.
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.
Unless you have perfectly conventional beliefs, it's rarely a good idea to tell everybody everything that you know.
The smartphones that distract us from our surroundings also distract us from the fact that our surroundings are strangely old:
Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
Your company needs to sell more than its product. You must also sell your company to employees and investors.
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.