378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities.

You probably can’t be the Google of 2014 in terms of compensation or perks, but you can be like the Google of 1999 if you already have good answers about your mission and team.

You can expect the future to take a definite form or you can treat it as hazily uncertain.

So when thinking about what kind of company to build, there are two distinct questions to ask: What secrets is nature not telling you? What secrets are people not telling you?

No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.

The most successful companies make the core progression – to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets – a part of their founding narrative.

1. Goals that can be satisfied with minimal effort; 2. Goals that can be satisfied with serious effort; and 3. Goals that cannot be satisfied, no matter how much effort one makes.

Every living thing is just a random iteration on some other organism, and the best iterations win.

The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom.