Peter Diamandis Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

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

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.

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

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

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

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

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.

When faced without a challenge, make one

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

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

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

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

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

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

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.