KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Peter Thiel Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Peter Thiel

Showing 31-40 of 113 Quotes by Peter Thiel

I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Peter Thiel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 11th, 1967

Links

Find Peter Thiel on Amazon

Related Authors

Les Brown
Warren Buffett
Stephen Covey
Peter Drucker
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Jim Rohn

Popular Authors

Woody Allen Johnny Cash Tyler, The Creator Emily Dickinson Walt Disney Anita Hill Franklin D. Roosevelt Leonardo Da Vinci

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Birthday Family Marriage Men Sad Thankful Wisdom