Zitat des Tages von Peter Thiel:
I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
I did not want to write just another business book.
You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
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.
I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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.
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.
We protect monopolies with copyright.
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.
If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
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.
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.
An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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.
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.
You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.
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.
Technology just means information technology.
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.
What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
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?'
I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
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.
Airbnb is undervalued.
A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.
People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
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.
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.
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.