Peter Thiel Quotes
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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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Airbnb is undervalued.
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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 suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
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I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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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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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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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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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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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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Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.
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Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
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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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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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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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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
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I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
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I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.
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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
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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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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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Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.
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In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.