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Peter Thiel
American
Businessman
Born:
Oct 11
,
1967
Future
People
Technology
Think
World
You
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It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Peter Thiel
Success
Work
Good
You
Yourself
Key
Achieve
Job
Feeling
Ambition
Think
Key Thing
Develop
Talents
Well
Well Done
Greater
Test
Get
Done
Success Is
Your
Fully
Thing
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
Peter Thiel
You
Learning
People
Will
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
System
Network
Operating
Operating System
Social
Them
Next
Bill
Page
Bill Gates
Engine
Company
Search
Search Engine
Larry
Start
Copying
Gates
All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
Peter Thiel
Work
Future
Change
People
World
Inspire
Change The World
Definite
Toward
Motivate
Us
'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
Peter Thiel
Competition
Achieve
Economics
State
Meets
Considered
Markets
Both
Perfect
Consumer
Supply
Perfectly
Ideal
Demand
Equilibrium
So-Called
Producer
Default
Competitive
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.
Peter Thiel
You
Find
Restaurant
Something
Bother
Get
Done
Manhattan
Starting
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
Peter Thiel
Future
Valued
Idea
Most
Very
Different
Successful
Successful Businesses
Businesses
Fully
Present
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Peter Thiel
You
Science
People
Word
Tell
Poker
Like
Often
Use
I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
Peter Thiel
Success
You
Complicated
Think
Something
Success Is
Then
Works
Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
Peter Thiel
Too
Toward
Long-Term
Biased
Always
Wall
Wall Street
Short-Term
Against
Street
Growth
Profitability
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.
Peter Thiel
Life
Me
Law
School
Path
College
Marked
Out
High
Followed
High School
Law School
Seemed
Along
Professional
Professional Life
Starting
How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
Peter Thiel
Great
People
How
Been
Done
Teach
Riddle
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.
Peter Thiel
Life
Good
Day
You
Every Day
People
Will
Live
Every
Think
Say
Though
Always
Go
Were
End
Want
Should
Your
Ever
Last
What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
Peter Thiel
Society
Our
Out
About
Ideas
Talked
Does
Gets
Where
Anyone
Who
I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
Peter Thiel
People
Live
Believe
Think
Absolute
Could
Enable
Forever
Should
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Peter Thiel
Time
You
Degree
Think
Our
System
Something
Compute
Part
Part-Time
Global
Around
Real
Educational
Existing
Clock
Effort
Done
Intensity
Sustained
Anything
Cannot
Breakthroughs
Requires
My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
Peter Thiel
People
College
Same Thing
Claim
Exact
Only
Talented
Talented People
Go
Same
Should
Thing
The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
Peter Thiel
Generation
Parents
First
Think
Those
About
Something
Reduced
Decadent
Expectations
Us
People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
Peter Thiel
Service
Privacy
People
Worried
About
Like
Snapchat
Reasons
Using
I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
Peter Thiel
Think
Society
Something
Both
Powerful
Real
Very
Quite
Problematic
Whole
If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
Peter Thiel
You
Business
Problem
Challenge
Become
Extremely
Easy
Something
Idea
Often
Copy
From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
Peter Thiel
Future
Conversation
Better
Perspective
Important
Build
Become
Think
Extremely
Possible
About
Better Future
Obscured
Longer
Because
How
Question
Meaningful
Us
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
Peter Thiel
Courage
Genius
World
Live
Supply
Than
Which
Less
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
Peace
Made
Think
Society
Complacency
Our
Danger
Bit
Out
Like
Little
Little Bit
Them
Decline
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
Peter Thiel
Phones
Recording
Cell Phones
Obama
Angela
He
Know
Did
Cell
Suspect
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
Peter Thiel
Future
Learning
Generation
People
Opportunities
College
Down
Gives
Takes
Also
Debt
Next
Next Generation
Away
I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
Peter Thiel
Time
People
World
Thinking
Spend
Dinners
About
Talking
Lot
Friends
Getting
Going
Just
Social
Activities
Awful
Awful Lot
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