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
I think society is both something that’s very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic. – Peter Thiel
I think what’s always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth. – Peter Thiel
Contrarian thinking doesn’t make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up. – Peter Thiel
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
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
If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That’s why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done. – 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
