If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.
Peter ThielWe need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.
Peter ThielPeople working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They arenโt releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.
Peter ThielI do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.
Peter ThielI think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.
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