Peter Thiel Quotes

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Peter Thiel

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 11, 1967

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

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Great things happen only once.

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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

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Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

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

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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

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An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.

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How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

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I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

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You become a great writer by writing.

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Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

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There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

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When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

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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.

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Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

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Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'

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Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.

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