Peter Thiel Quotes

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I want to do really good things with my life.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

I worked hard to get stronger and better, and I'm really happy and satisfied.

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

The days you work are the best days.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.