Diamandis Quotes & Sayings

During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams. — Peter Diamandis

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. — Peter Diamandis

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

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online. — Peter Diamandis

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see. — 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

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

Government research has to go through peer review. — 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

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. — Peter Diamandis

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

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people. — Peter Diamandis

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. — 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

But if you sign up for moonshot thinking, if you sign up to make something 10x better, there is no chance of doing that with existing assumptions. — Peter H. 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've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money. — Peter Diamandis

We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. — Peter Diamandis

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

The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with. — Peter Diamandis

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

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers. — Peter Diamandis

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. — Peter Diamandis

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable. — Peter Diamandis

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? — 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

In fact, I've come to think of making stone soup as the only way an entrepreneur can succeed. — Peter H. Diamandis

Old-style management is irrelevant. — 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

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

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. — 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

Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space. — Peter Diamandis

WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware. — Peter Diamandis

Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. — Joanna Penn

I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness. — Peter Diamandis

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera? — Peter Diamandis

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down. — Peter Diamandis

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not ... because if you have that, you will have gold. — Peter Diamandis

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. — Peter Diamandis

The first trillionaire can be made in space. — 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

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation. — 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

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. — Peter Diamandis

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

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed. — Peter Diamandis

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

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore. — 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

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

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. — Peter Diamandis

Just three or four decades ago, if you wanted to access a thousand core processors, you'd need to be the chairman of MIT's computer science department or the secretary of the US Defense Department. Today the average chip in your cell phone can perform about a billion calculations per second. Yet today has nothing on tomorrow. "By 2020, a chip with today's processing power will cost about a penny," CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explained in a recent article for Big Think,23 "which is the cost of scrap paper. . . . Children are going to look back and wonder how we could have possibly lived in such a meager world, much as when we think about how our own parents lacked the luxuries - cell phone, Internet - that we all seem to take for granted. — Peter H. Diamandis

Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car. — Peter Diamandis

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — 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

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

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky. — 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

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. — Peter Diamandis

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

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. — 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

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years ... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. — Peter Diamandis

Blue Heron Biotechnology, — Peter H. Diamandis

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. — 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

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

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

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

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away. — Peter Diamandis

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. — 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

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. — Peter Diamandis

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well. — Peter Diamandis

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. — Peter Diamandis

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. — Peter Diamandis

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine. — Peter Diamandis

Today Americans living below the poverty line are not just light-years ahead of most Africans; they're light-years ahead of the wealthiest Americans from just a century ago. Today 99 percent of Americans living below the poverty line have electricity, water, flushing toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 percent have a television; 88 percent have a telephone; 71 percent have a car; and 70 percent even have air-conditioning. This may not seem like much, but one hundred years ago men like Henry Ford and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the richest on the planet, but they enjoyed few of these luxuries. — Peter H. 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

When hiring, trust your feelings. — 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

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. — 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