Peter Thiel Quotes

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Peter Thiel

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 11, 1967

I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.

Peter Thiel

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.

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I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

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I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

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Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

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I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

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Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

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When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?

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