378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future.