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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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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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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We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
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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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Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
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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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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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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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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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Incentive prizes work.
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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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Making things open-source brings the cost down.
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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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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.
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Government research has to go through peer review.
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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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Old-style management is irrelevant.
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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.
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With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.