Peter Thiel Quotes

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

To innovate is not to reform.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I believe in being an innovator.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

Innovation happens everywhere.