Peter Thiel Quotes
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
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 your company's value in the future.
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do.
I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.
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 is that technology matters more.
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.
Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.
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.'
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.
Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
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.
Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
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.
Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.
No company has a culture, every company is a culture