10 quotes by 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

“The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him seriously. The voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally.”— Peter Thiel

“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”— Peter Thiel

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”— Peter Thiel

“Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.”— Peter Thiel

“All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”— Peter Thiel

“Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.”— Peter Thiel

“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”— Peter Thiel

“the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.”— Peter Thiel

“The best projects are likely to be overlooked, not trumpeted by a crowd; the best problems to work on are often the ones nobody else even tries to solve.”— Peter Thiel