Peter Thiel Quotes
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Airbnb is undervalued.
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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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Great things happen only once.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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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.'
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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.
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
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The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'
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It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.
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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
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I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
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College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
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I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
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I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
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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.
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I believe that people are too complacent about technology.
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If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
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I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.