I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically. Peter Thiel criticallycrowddistrustful Change image and share on social
As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that. Peter Thiel campuscodedebate share on social
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian. Peter Thiel libertarianstaunch Change image and share on social
You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible. Peter Thiel achievedifficultimpossible Change image and share on social
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. Peter Thiel aversionbasicallyenvironmentalism Change image and share on social
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. Peter Thiel astronautcomputerguide Change image and share on social
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. Peter Thiel breakthroughclockcompute share on social
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. Peter Thiel 000thbotherfind Change image and share on social
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone. Peter Thiel buildcompanydecide share on social
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth. Peter Thiel biasgrowthlong Change image and share on social
