378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

The airlines compete with each other, but Google stands alone. Economists use two simplified models to explain the difference: perfect competition and monopoly.

I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it’s true for governments and it’s true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.

Society is secretly driven by sales.

Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.

As computers become more and more powerful, they won’t be substitutes for humans: they’ll be complements.

It’s a horribly mismanaged company-probably a lot of pot smoking going on there.

Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way.

Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

The most obvious clue was sartorial: cleantech executives were running around wearing suits and ties. This was a huge red flag, because real technologists wear T-shirts and jeans.