Peter Diamandis famous quotes

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Crazy #Ideas #Crazy Ideas

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

#Night #Gold #Pay

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

#Opportunity #Racing #Quality

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

#Dream #Space #Bigs

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

#Creating #Luxury #Abundance

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

#Mean #Past #Lines

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

#Block #Thinking #Innovation

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

#Team #Passion #Past

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

#Experts #Done

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

#People #Way #Helping

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Giving Up #Goal #People

When faced without a challenge, make one
-- Peter Diamandis

#Challenges

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

#People #Risk #Blame

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

#Government #Research #Fund

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

#Water #People #Challenges

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Meaningful #Tired #Differences

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Challenges #Together #Band

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

#Stuff #Remarkable

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Crazy #Fake #Needs

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Risk #Purpose #Missions

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Data #Brain #Perception

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

#Motivation #Inspiration #Water

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

#Thinking #Space #Race

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

#Dream #Future #Hands

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

#School #Years #Organization

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Government #Agency #Risk

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

#Long #Generations #Problem

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
-- Peter Diamandis

#School #Trying #Medical

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

#Company

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing,
-- Peter Diamandis

#Rate Of Change #Rate #Constant

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Attitude #Thinking #Careers

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

#Smart #Thinking #Needs

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

#Research #Unrest #Violence

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Uplifting #Impact #Literacy

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.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Years #World #Energy

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Dream #Thinking #People

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Country #Doctors #Way

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

#Opportunity #Space #Flying

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

#Believe #Goal #People

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Philosophy #Creating #Want

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Risk #Breakthrough

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

#Warrior #Technology #Years

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

#Quality #Life Is #Function

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Opportunity #World #Problem

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

#Eight #People #Internet

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

#Eight #Groups #Earth

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

#Phones #Cost #Physicians

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
-- Peter Diamandis

#News

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

#Thinking #Moon #Space

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

#Organization #Missions #Demoralized

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Humanity #Earth #Way

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Dream #Childhood #Effort

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
-- Peter Diamandis

#Father #Islands #Doctors

Technology is a resource liberating force!
-- Peter Diamandis

#Technology #Force #Resources