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Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
American Businessman
Born: Oct 11, 1967
Future People Technology Think World You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things. Peter Thiel
Country New Things New Economy Does Model Things
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. Peter Thiel
People Car Black Sleeping Airbnb Staying Invest Driving Investors Hotels Town Like Biased Venture Because Understand Always Themselves Capitalists Things
Airbnb is undervalued. Peter Thiel
Airbnb Undervalued
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it. Peter Thiel
Education Sense Must Classic Something Bubble Call Intense Belief
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. Peter Thiel
Finance College Argument Ways Those Possibly Administrators Kinds Some Having More Misleading Mortgages Powerful Advertising Industry Equally Been Lot Against Engaged Used Who Even Buyers
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. Peter Thiel
Education Money Parents Live Enormous Back Kids Find Invested Well Coming Them Amount
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. Peter Thiel
Future You Change People Low Expectations Think Change Things Meet Those About Generally Likely Expectations Low Working View Working Hard Hard Pessimistic Europe Things
Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. Peter Thiel
Important Every Unknown Secret Correct Something Answer Hard Necessarily
One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar. Peter Thiel
First Lost Every Startup Investments Calendar Dollar
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control. Peter Thiel
Government People World Competition Will Power Control Think More Individual Lead Like Another Because Enable Shift Government Power Ultimately Jurisdiction Which Less PayPal Therefore Foster Technologies Funds
Great investments may look crazy but really may not be. Peter Thiel
Great Crazy Investments Look May Really
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI. Peter Thiel
Time Change People AI Too Much Thinking Too Too Much Time Spending Way About Climate Climate Change Little Much
The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?' Peter Thiel
Alien First Jobs Would Would-Be Economy Does Question Friendly Unfriendly Mean Landed Ask Planet
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. Peter Thiel
Time Character People Financial Live Would Would-Be Somewhat Takes Retired Longer Period Lot Very Suspect Just Different Planning
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. Peter Thiel
Service Financial Challenge Internet Big Difficult Sign Financial Services Has-Been Big Challenge Been Up Very Get Customers Your Large Large Numbers Services Numbers
My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance. Peter Thiel
Hope Privacy Will Tolerance Society Increased More Erosion End Up Offset Going Where Far Tolerant Extent
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. Peter Thiel
Today Moon Power Every Guided Astronauts Thousands More Computers Times Than Processing To The Moon
The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. Peter Thiel
Best People Important Extreme Considered Slightly Those Kinds About Something Tend Outside Wrong Missed Important People Cults Difference Biggest Biggest Difference Might Successful Less Right Start-Up
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. Peter Thiel
Gay Every Most Identity Proud Am American Republican Unique Every American
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