378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.