378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

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

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.