Top 233 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Diamandis - Page 2

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

Old-style management is irrelevant.

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

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.

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

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.

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.