Peter Thiel Quotes

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

Peter Thiel

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• When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Business
  • Man
  • Body

• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Like
  • Anniversary

• I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Man
  • Hairy

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enthusiastic as ever about Bitcoin as a global currency and, really more importantly, Bitcoin as a global financial rail.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Financial
  • Very
  • Blockchain

• Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Everybody

• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Home
  • Game
  • Want

• What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listen

• You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Day
  • Three

• I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• I think that it is becoming more and more clear that the European Union is an indispensable partner in some fields.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Think
  • More
  • Partner

• As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Optimistic

• Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • True
  • Trust
  • Same

• But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nice

• We were simply not there, but we showed character and scored some nice goals. We generated a lot of good chances and did a lot of good things.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Character
  • Goals
  • Chances

• There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Soul

• In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

  

  Chris Fussell

• The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,-you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.

  

  Emily Dickinson

• A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

  

  Peter Thiel