378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

A startup is the largest endeavour over which you can define mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world.

If you have invented sth new but you have not invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business - no matter how good the product

Like acting, sales works best when hidden.

We are more fascinated today by statistical predictions of what the country will be thinking in a few weeks’ time than by visionary predictions of what the country will look like in 10 or 20 years from now.

No sector will ever be so important that merely participating in it will be enough to build a great company.

Social entrepreneurs aim to combine the best of both worlds and "do well by doing good." Usually they end up doing neither.

Recruiting should never be outsourced. Everyone at your company should be different in the same way.

Question for job applicants: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.