Peter Diamandis Quotes
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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.
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.
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.
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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.
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
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.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
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.
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.
I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
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.
