“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It...” — Peter Thiel Quote

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.