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You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.
— Peter Thiel
Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.
— Peter Thiel
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
— Peter Thiel
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
— Peter Thiel
Like acting, sales works best when hidden.
— Peter Thiel
Google makes so much money that it's now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
— Peter Thiel
Technology just means information technology.
— Peter Thiel
competition and capitalism are opposites.
— Peter Thiel
True heroes take their personal honor so seriously that they will fight for things that do not matter.
— Peter Thiel
Great things happen only once.
— Peter Thiel
The future is limitless.
— Peter Thiel
The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.
— Peter Thiel
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.
— Peter Thiel
Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
— Peter Thiel
Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
— Peter Thiel
I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
— Peter Thiel
when people lack concrete plans to carry out, they use formal rules to assemble a portfolio of various options.
— Peter Thiel
Society is secretly driven by sales
— Peter Thiel
The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.
— Peter Thiel
Airbnb is undervalued.
— Peter Thiel
There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
— Peter Thiel
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
— Peter Thiel
So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven't been standardized and institutionalized?
— Peter Thiel
An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
— Peter Thiel
What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
— Peter Thiel
If you're less sensitive to social cues, you're less likely to do the same things as everyone else around you.
— Peter Thiel
Luck is like an atheistic word for God ...
— Peter Thiel
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
— Peter Thiel
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
— Peter Thiel
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
— Peter Thiel
A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
— Peter Thiel
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.'
— Peter Thiel
In the short term I want to change the world, In the long term I want to live forever.
— Peter Thiel
Or you can radically improve an existing solution: once you're 10x better, you escape competition.
— Peter Thiel
Social entrepreneurs aim to combine the best of both worlds and "do well by doing good." Usually they end up doing neither.
— Peter Thiel
Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.
— Peter Thiel
Think about how Google talks about its business. It certainly doesn't claim to be a monopoly.
— Peter Thiel
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
— Peter Thiel
Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles.
— Peter Thiel
...a lone genius might create a classic work of art or literature, but he could never create an entire industry.
— Peter Thiel
To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.
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You become a great writer by writing.
— Peter Thiel
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
— Peter Thiel
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
— Peter Thiel
A company has a monopoly on its own brand by definition, so creating a strong brand is a powerful way to claim a monopoly.
— Peter Thiel
You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.
— Peter Thiel
I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
— Peter Thiel
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
— Peter Thiel
small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better.
— Peter Thiel
First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.
— Peter Thiel
I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
— Peter Thiel
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
— Peter Thiel
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.
— Peter Thiel
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.
— Peter Thiel
cash-poor executive, by contrast, will focus on increasing the value of the company as a whole.
— Peter Thiel
Great companies have secrets: specific reasons for success that other people don't see.
— Peter Thiel
in a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don't perceive it to be unjust.
— Peter Thiel
A start up messed up at the foundation cannot be fixed.
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All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
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but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience.
— Peter Thiel
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
— Peter Thiel
pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met.
— Peter Thiel
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
— Peter Thiel
to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you'll give up on trying to master it.
— Peter Thiel
Everybody has a product to sell - no
— Peter Thiel
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
— Peter Thiel
There's no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.
— Peter Thiel
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
— Peter Thiel
I did not want to write just another business book.
— Peter Thiel