Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
Peter DiamandisWhat is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
Peter DiamandisToday, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.
Peter DiamandisBack 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.
Peter DiamandisI'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.
Peter Diamandis