Peter Diamandis Quotes

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

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.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

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.

Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

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.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.