Peter Thiel Quotes

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Peter Thiel

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• During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Moving
  • Transformation
  • Fast

• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Music
  • New
  • Update

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Want
  • Sky
  • Limit

• I'm as honest as I can be.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Honest
  • I Can

• I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • God
  • Write
  • Wrote

• I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Done
  • Hate

• Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Words

• You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Pretty
  • Adversity
  • Monday

• Listen up, me name be Buchanan, me knows enough things bout politics. Get involved, mack daddies. Y'all better realize, that nothing be a better way to get your kicks. West side, aight?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up

• 'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Advice
  • Sad

• Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Single
  • Taken
  • Decision

• I absolutely don't nurture any grudge against those calling me overrated. Well, they are merely conforming what I've been asserting for years now. Yes, I have been exalted to a pedestal much higher than I merit, which has both embarrassed and elated me.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Time
  • Great
  • Game

• You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • School
  • History
  • Feeling

• I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

  

  Katherine Kelly

• Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Education
  • Nice

• Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

  

  Dave McPherson
  • Different
  • Sports
  • Accomplishment

• You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

  

  Peter Thiel