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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

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

Peter Thiel

I did not want to write just another business book.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

Peter Thiel

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Peter Thiel

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

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Peter Thiel

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

Peter Thiel

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

We protect monopolies with copyright.

Peter Thiel

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

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

Peter Thiel

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.

Peter Thiel

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Peter Thiel

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.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

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

Technology just means information technology.

Peter Thiel

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

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Peter Thiel

Airbnb is undervalued.

Peter Thiel

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

Peter Thiel

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

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