Peter Thiel quotes
Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal. His investments and ideas have significantly influenced Silicon Valley and the technology industry. He is also known for supporting innovative startups and for his role as an author and public intellectual. Here are 25 of his quotes:
The university system in 2014, it's like the Catholic Church circa 1514... You have this priestly class of professors that doesn't do very much work; people are buying indulgences in the form of amassing enormous debt for the sort of the secular salvation that a diploma represents. And what I think is also similar to the 16th century is that the Reformation will come largely from the outside.
Peter Thiel
I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself "libertarian."... But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible... The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
Photo:
Gage Skidmore,
CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: October 11, 1967
Quotes count: 25
Related authors
