Peter Thiel Quotes

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn't buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole lot more.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

All I want to be is normally insane.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.