378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future—if you don’t take charge of your life—there is the sense that no one else will.

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness