Peter Diamandis Quotes
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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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Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
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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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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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Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
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Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
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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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3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
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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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In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
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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 founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
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It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.
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All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
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The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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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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Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
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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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Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
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Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
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Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.