Peter Diamandis Quotes

You're not going to push ahead when it's someone else's mission. It needs to be yours.

Curiosity is a powerful jones. It fuels much of science, but it's nothing compared to fear,

Skype demonetized long-distance telephony; Craigslist demonetized classified advertising; Napster demonetized the music industry. This list goes on and on. More critically, because demonetization is also deceptive, almost no one within those industries was prepared for such radical change.

By 9 am every day, you've probably already surfed the internet for knowledge, moved money, and spoken to someone across the planet. 

150 years ago, you'd be called a god; now you call it Tuesday.

the best way to become a billionaire is to solve a billion-person problem.

Thus, on April 9, 2012, just three months after Kodak filed for bankruptcy, Instagram and its thirteen employees were bought by Facebook for $1 billion.20

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

Fear is the most expensive emotion. It costs you time, opportunity, and the future you could have built. Trade fear for curiosity.

But if you sign up for moonshot thinking, if you sign up to make something 10x better, there is no chance of doing that with existing assumptions. You're going to have to throw out the rule book. You're going to have to perspective-shift and supplant all that smartness and resources with bravery and creativity.

The cost of reasoning is collapsing 10x faster than the cost of bandwidth did in the 90s. Society is moving from "AI as a tool" to "Intelligence as a Utility." When reasoning is too cheap to meter, the only bottleneck left is the physical world. This is why Optimus is the most important product in history. It’s the bridge from digital abundance to physical reality.

Honestly, we might not need better hospitals; we need better technology that prevents people from ending up in the hospital in the first place.

Following this passion is how you create a world worth living, a life that wakes you up in the morning and gets you excited.

three of these forces — the coming of age of the DIY innovator; a new breed of technophilanthropist; the expanding creative/market power of the rising billion — are augmented by exponential technology.

when Steve Jobs said that the goal of every entrepreneur should be to "put a dent in the universe" — he wasn't talking about inventing the next Angry Birds.

perspective shapes our reality.