Quotes by Peter Diamandis

About Peter Diamandis:

Peter H. Diamandis is a Greek-American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., the founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, the co-founder of the International Space University, the co-founder of Planetary Resources, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and vice-chairman & co-founder of Human Longevity, Inc.
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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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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, you...

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Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

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I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

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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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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

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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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Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up bei...

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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

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When hiring, trust your feelings.

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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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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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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

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The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

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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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Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

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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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The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

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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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As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

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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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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Diamandis
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornMay 20, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur