378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.