Remarks by Commencement Speaker Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel, co-founder of worldwide online payments system PayPal, delivered the Commencement address at Hamilton College on May 22, 2016.

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[JimmyCarvalho]

He is very very good. A genius. Zero to one is awesome.

[gtboard]

Good speech. Dont always follow your elders advices and live you life at it would last forever. And we the Western world are not developed enough yet. Good speech :)

[CulbsDC]

Brilliant.
"Live each day as if you will live forever. That means, first and foremost, that you should treat the people around you as if they too will be around for a very long time to come. The choices that you make today matter, because their consequences will grow greater and greater.

That is what Einstein was getting at when he supposedly said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. This isn’t just about finance or money, but it’s about the idea that you’ll get the best returns in life from investing your time in building durable friendships and long-lasting relationships."

[DheerajBhaskar]

This guy, this guy! Shakes your beliefs from the foundations. He is our modern day philosopher :-)

[JochenMoser]

"Live each day as if you lived forever"

"Do not be true to yourself. How do you even know you have such a thing as a self? Your self might be motivated by competition with others, like I was. You need to discipline your self, to cultivate it, and care for it, not to follow it blindly"

[ryguillian]

Beautiful speech; I especially like the idea that in order to "live each day as if it were your last" you should "live as if you will live forever". Many people turn "live each day as if it were your last" into some kinda of base YOLO crap but Thiel's more cerebral take is much more relevant to the world we actually live in and the problems facing humanity.

[bradpittman]

I wish that more teachers in the “teachers union” subscribed to the way of thinking that Peter espouses. God bless.

[Arcandcrown]

Loved this speech! We actually have a Web Series that profiles Young Entrepreneurs in Toronto, it's amazing how much Entrepreneurs have to teach and inspire the rest of the world!

[kodaikusano]

Can I translate his speech and add a subtitle in Japanese? I think this should be widely shared with Japanese audience as well.

[cellocovers]

This is the beginning of forever, and I won't delay you in getting on with it.

[William_Clinton_Muguai]

The guy dropped law practice 2 persue business & venture capitalism.
Sth he forgot 2 add, "U r original & cannot be replaced. Why do u wanna live as a copy? Follow ur heart's passion."

[bbsara]

Peter has some amazing points here. I didnt get in to engineering school so did CS instead. turns out CS was the correct major to chose and mechanical engineering is a dying major. It was mostly luck than skill on my part tho.

[carolwang]

exactly!! how many people are living in a competition life with others?! they are so lost!!

[barryt]

Too bad he's a supremacist fascist oligarch. And some kinda blood-feeding techno-vampire. Other than that, I guess he's OK?