Leadership quotes by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel

The future is limitless.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

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

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.

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

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

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.

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.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.