Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
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I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
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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.
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We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
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Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
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Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
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Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
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Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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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.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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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.
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Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
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Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
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Incentive prizes work.
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Making things open-source brings the cost down.
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Old-style management is irrelevant.
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As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
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Government research has to go through peer review.
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My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
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I collect a lot of data. We all do.
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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.
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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.