Peter Diamandis
I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.Collection: Future
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.Collection: Attitude
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.Collection: Inspirational
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Learning
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.Collection: Space
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Money
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.Collection: Space
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.Collection: Intelligence
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.Collection: Space
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.Collection: Money
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.Collection: Computers
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.Collection: Knowledge
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.Collection: Business
Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.Collection: Business
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Chance
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.Collection: Computers
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?Collection: Health
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.Collection: Computers
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.Collection: Technology
Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.Collection: Life
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.Collection: Fear
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. It's just not in usable form yet.Collection: Environmental
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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.
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
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.
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
Incentive prizes work.
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.