Top 113 Quotes by Peter Thiel

About Peter Thiel

These are some quotes by American author Peter Thiel Businessman, who was born on October 11, 1967.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Peter Thiel

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Peter Thiel

My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.

My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.

Peter Thiel

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

Peter Thiel

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

Peter Thiel

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Peter Thiel

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

Peter Thiel

'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.

'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.

Peter Thiel

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Peter Thiel

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'

Peter Thiel

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