Top 120 Peter H. Diamandis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It’s persistence. It’s making your own luck.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

2. “The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

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3. “The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”

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4. “The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.”

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5. “The first trillionaire can be made in space.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

6. “The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

7. “You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

8. “Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

9. “If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

10. “A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

11. “Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That’s how remarkable happens.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

12. “Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

13. “An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

14. “You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

15. “Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

16. “Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

17. “Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

18. “More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we ‘as individuals’ have enormous power to solve them.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

19. “When faced without a challenge, make one.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

20. “Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

21. “Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

22. “I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

23. “We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

24. “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.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

25. “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 H. Diamandis

26. “Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That’s because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

27. “Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

28. “You’re not going to push ahead when it’s someone else’s mission. It needs to be yours.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

29. “Slingshot, for the technology that David used to bring down Goliath.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

30. “You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

31. “Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

32. “True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

33. “If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

34. “Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

35. “Technology is a resource liberating force!”

— Peter H. Diamandis

36. “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 H. Diamandis

37. “This difference is key. Thinking in probabilities – this business has a 60 percent chance of success – rather than deterministically – if I do A and B, then C will definitely happen – doesn’t just guard against oversimplification; it further protects against the brain’s inherent laziness.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

38. “Africa has 1.3 percent of the world’s health workers caring for 25 percent of the global disease burden.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

39. “The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

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

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41. “The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There’s a lawsuit, there’s a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.”

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42. “If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

43. “I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it’s risky.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

44. “I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

45. “There are 2.7 billion people in the developing world without access to financial services.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

46. “One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

47. “Bill Joy famously pointed out: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.””

— Peter H. Diamandis

48. “Online, no one can see what color you are, which gods you worship, how you dress, what your hair looks like, if you smoke or smell or smile too much. This anonymity allows people who wouldn’t normally sit on a park bench together to share deeply meaningful and potentially profitable experiences.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

49. “Creating a company with autonomy, mastery, and purpose as key values means creating a company built for speed. And this is no longer optional.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

50. “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.”

— Peter H. Diamandis