Quote

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

Peter Diamandis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
Entrepreneur
Physician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Idea
Ideas
Going
Station
Think
Innovative
Thinking
Stations
Moon
Space

More quotes by Peter Diamandis

Image
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
Image
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.
Peter Diamandis
Image
Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.
Peter Diamandis
Image
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
Peter Diamandis
Image
Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
Peter Diamandis
Image
Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
Peter Diamandis
Image
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
Image
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
Peter Diamandis
Image
When faced without a challenge, make one
Peter Diamandis
Image
We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.
Peter Diamandis
Image
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
Peter Diamandis
Image
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
Image
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
Peter Diamandis
Image
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
Peter Diamandis
Image
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
Image
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
Peter Diamandis
Image
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
Peter Diamandis
Image
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.
Peter Diamandis
Image
The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.
Peter Diamandis
Image
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
Peter Diamandis