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Greek-American engineer, physician and entrepreneur

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Peter H. Diamandis (born May 20, 1961) is an American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University. He is also cofounder and former CEO of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University, cofounder of Planetary Resources, cofounder of Celularity, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and vice chairman and cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc.

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Native Name: Peter H. Diamandis

Alternative Names: Dr. Peter Diamandis • Dr. Peter H. Diamandis

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We are about to unlock a near infinite supply of resources in our solar system. The reality is an overwhelming amount of abundance. A near infinite supply of energy, metals, minerals and real estate. Abundance is our future, scarcity is our past.

The tech tools we have available for free right now are WORTHY of your ambitions. Use them.

We are no longer living in a time where one of progress' biggest bottlenecks was 'not enough thinking', today we have experts, entrepreneurs, and everyday people tackling the world's biggest problems from a computer on their desk.

That's what keeps me optimistic about the future of humanity. We no longer have a scarcity of experts.

Every year you stay alive today buys you more than a year of scientific progress tomorrow. Your only job right now is to not die from something stupid before the tech catch-up begins.

The best time to start was yesterday. The second-best time is now. The worst time is "when things settle down", because honestly they never do.

If you're given a choice, take both. Don't accept false either/or tradeoffs.

If you think the world's breakthroughs and advancements are happening TO you, you're missing the point... It's happening FOR. you.

YOU have agency, I wonder... will you use it?

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

The most important decision you'll make this decade: Do you believe the future is something that happens TO you, or something you actively design? Because the designers are building right now.

Experts are experts in what WAS, not what will be. If you want to do something new, look outside the field!

Andrew Carnegie spent a fortune building 2,500 free libraries so a poor kid could read what a rich one read. We are finishing the job he started. The only difference is the library now talks back, in every language, and it never closes.

I would say the most important investment you can do right now is not in stocks or real estate, but your HEALTH.

Space, as it turns out, is big. The first company built to take the fiction out of science fiction is amongst the most valuable on Earth.

Hollywood convinced generations of a dystopian future because happiness was too boring for movies.

We need better storytellers to show how our future will be abundant.

You don't need permission to change the world. You NEVER did.