Peter Diamandis Quotes & Sayings

Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury - rather it's about providing all with a life of possibility. — Peter Diamandis

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case. — Peter Diamandis

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. — Peter Diamandis

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?' — Peter Diamandis

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. — Peter Diamandis

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. — Peter Diamandis

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail. — Peter Diamandis

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. — Peter Diamandis

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live? — Peter Diamandis

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior. — Peter Diamandis

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones. — Peter Diamandis

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people. — Peter Diamandis

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. — Peter Diamandis

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford. — Peter Diamandis

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space. — Peter Diamandis

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being. — Peter Diamandis

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns. — Peter Diamandis

If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there. — Peter Diamandis

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions ... all good things. — Peter Diamandis

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday. — Peter Diamandis

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space. — Peter Diamandis

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before. — Peter Diamandis

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' — Peter Diamandis

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big. — Peter Diamandis

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. — Peter Diamandis

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four. — Peter Diamandis

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. — Peter Diamandis

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know. — Peter Diamandis

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens. — Peter Diamandis

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it. — Peter Diamandis

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past. — Peter Diamandis

Nothing is more precious than life ... especially the life of your child. — Peter Diamandis

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think. — Peter Diamandis

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. — Peter Diamandis

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision. — Peter Diamandis

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. — Peter Diamandis

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. — Peter Diamandis

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible. — Peter Diamandis

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. — Peter Diamandis

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. — Peter Diamandis

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt. — Peter Diamandis

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars. — Peter Diamandis

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! — Peter Diamandis

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down. — Peter Diamandis

Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders. — Peter Diamandis

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. — Peter Diamandis

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. — Peter Diamandis

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time? — Peter Diamandis

Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge, — Peter Diamandis

Technology is a resource liberating force! — Peter Diamandis

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. — Peter Diamandis

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. — Peter Diamandis

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. — Peter Diamandis

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic. — Peter Diamandis

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities. — Peter Diamandis

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration. — Peter Diamandis

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging? — Peter Diamandis

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child. — Peter Diamandis

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. — Peter Diamandis

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. — Peter Diamandis

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed. — Peter Diamandis

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. — Peter Diamandis

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. — Peter Diamandis

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream. — Peter Diamandis

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people. — Peter Diamandis

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. — Peter Diamandis

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. — Peter Diamandis

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920. — Peter Diamandis

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. — Peter Diamandis

As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. — Peter Diamandis

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. — Peter Diamandis

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. — Peter Diamandis

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. — Peter Diamandis

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. — Peter Diamandis

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. — Peter Diamandis

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. — Peter Diamandis

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent. — Peter Diamandis

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. — Peter Diamandis

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this. — Peter Diamandis

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. — Peter Diamandis

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies. — Peter Diamandis

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them. — Peter Diamandis

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. — Peter Diamandis

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly. — Peter Diamandis

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before. — Peter Diamandis

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. — Peter Diamandis

You either disrupt your own company or someone else will. — Peter Diamandis

When faced without a challenge, make one — Peter Diamandis

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy. — Peter Diamandis

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. — Peter Diamandis

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. — Peter Diamandis

It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world. — Peter Diamandis

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done. — Peter Diamandis

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago. — Peter Diamandis

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money. — Peter Diamandis

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. — Peter Diamandis

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. — Peter Diamandis

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar. — Peter Diamandis

The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine. — Peter Diamandis

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today. — Peter Diamandis