Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
Peter ThielProbably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.
Peter ThielIf you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.
Peter ThielBy the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.
Peter ThielHigher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Peter ThielIf you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going to be no innovation. So an investment in Microsoft is a bet that the operating system is going to stay the same, it won't be replaced by Linux, Google Docs, or a mobile platform like iOS or Android.
Peter Thiel