378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

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.

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows—and thus the company’s value—don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

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.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.