Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
Peter Diamandis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
Entrepreneur
Physician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Creating
Philosophy
Future
General
More quotes by Peter Diamandis
Today, 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 Diamandis
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.
Peter Diamandis
The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.
Peter Diamandis
You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
Peter Diamandis
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.
Peter Diamandis
Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.
Peter Diamandis
What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.
Peter Diamandis
When faced without a challenge, make one
Peter Diamandis
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
Peter Diamandis
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
Peter Diamandis
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.
Peter Diamandis
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
Peter Diamandis
Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.
Peter Diamandis
You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.
Peter Diamandis
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
Peter Diamandis
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
Peter Diamandis
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
Peter Diamandis
You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.
Peter Diamandis
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
Peter Diamandis
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
Peter Diamandis