378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do.

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.