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“I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.”

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Peter Thiel is a prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, and a key figure in the tech industry. He is known for his early investment in Facebook and his role in shaping the modern venture capital landscape. more

“I 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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Author:Peter Thiel

“My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.”

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“I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for governments and it's true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.”

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“Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.”

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“In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“If 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.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.”

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