Peter Diamandis Quotes
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What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
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Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
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The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
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Private companies should be building businesses.
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The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
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As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.