Peter Diamandis Quotes
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The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
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Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
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In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
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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.
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Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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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!
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Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
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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.
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Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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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.
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It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.
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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.
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
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The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
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Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
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People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
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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.
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If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
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Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.