Peter Thiel Quotes

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Peter Thiel

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 11, 1967

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

Peter Thiel

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

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People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.

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I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

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

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There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

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Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

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Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

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When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.

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Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

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Airbnb is undervalued.

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I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

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I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

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People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

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

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Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

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We protect monopolies with copyright.

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There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

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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.

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