Peter Diamandis Quotes
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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
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Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
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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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If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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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.
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I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
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When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
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From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.
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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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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
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One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
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With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
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Private companies should be building businesses.
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Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
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The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
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Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
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Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
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Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.