Top 120 Peter H. Diamandis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

52. “The Law of Accelerating Returns,” Ray Kurzweil did the math and found that we’re going to experience twenty thousand years of technological change over the next one hundred years. Essentially, we’re going from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the internet twice in the next century. This means paradigm-shifting, game-changing, nothing-is-ever-the-same-again breakthroughs – such as affordable aerial ridesharing – will not be an occasional affair. They’ll be happening all the time. It.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

53. “Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”

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54. “The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. 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

55. “The adjacent possible” is theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman’s wonderful term for all the myriad paths unlocked by every novel discovery, the multitude of universes hidden inside something as simple as an idea. 27 Abundance is one of those simple ideas. Its time has come. It.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

56. “I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

57. “To reach flow,” explains psychiatrist Ned Hallowell,22 “one must be willing to take risks.”

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58. “The reason, I believe, is even if you fail in doing something ambitious, you usually succeed in doing something important.”

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59. “My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.”

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60. “Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.”

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61. “We’re heading toward a future where AI will make the majority of our buying decisions, continually surprising us with products or services we didn’t even know we wanted. Or, if surprise isn’t your thing, just turn that feature off and opt for boring and staid. Either way, it’s a shift that threatens traditional advertisers, while offering considerable benefits to the consumer.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

62. “Quite simply, good news doesn’t catch our attention. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

63. “My goal is there’s a new generation of cars. And people can say we’re living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn’t it.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

64. “The greatest tool we have for tackling our grand challenges is the passionate and dedicated human mind.”

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65. “I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I’m sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what’s the economic engine that’s going to drive us into space.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

66. “The free flow of information has become so important to all of us that in 2011 the United Nations declared “access to the Internet” a fundamental human right.”

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67. “Abundance is a global vision built on the backbone of exponential change, but our local and linear brains are blind to the possibility, the opportunities it may present, and the speed at which it will arrive. Instead we fall prey to what’s become known as the “hype cycle.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

68. “We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We’re going to move out to other planetary bodies.”

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69. “NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

70. “Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.”

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71. “The true measure of something’s worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.”

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72. “Biotechnology isn’t just accelerating at the speed of Moore’s law, it’s accelerating at five times the speed of Moore’s law – doubling in power and halving in price every four months!”

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73. “I’ve got a hunk of gold and you have a watch. If we trade, then I have a watch and you have a hunk of gold. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange them, then we both have two ideas. It’s nonzero.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

74. “What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.”

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75. “If we were to forgo our television addiction for just one year, the world would have over a trillion hours of cognitive surplus to commit to share projects.”

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76. “The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn’t you?”

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77. “I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it’s where the Boeings and the Lockheed’s and the Northrop’s and so forth. And there’s no way these small companies could do it.”

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80. “Perhaps most importantly, the average American foodstuff now travels 1,500 miles before being consumed.”

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81. “Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early ’60’s, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.”

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82. “Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy – not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

83. “The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We’re learning how to print it, make it more efficient.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “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.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

86. “Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. But this has an immediate impact on.”

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87. “We are starting to direct the evolution of our biology and of our minds ourselves... As we begin to liberate our thoughts, our memes, our consciousness from the biological constraints that we presently have, this will allow us to evolve far faster and ever faster.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

88. “Our days of isolation are behind us. In today’s world, what happens “over there” impacts “over here.”

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89. “Three boys are desirable because one will probably die, while the second will stay home to tend the farm, providing for parents as they age as well as making enough money to send the third child to school so that he can get a better job and end this cycle.”

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90. “The ego-belittling truth the Internet makes visible is that none of us is as unique as we’d like to believe.”

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91. “Right now, and for the first time ever, a passionate and committed individual has access to the technology, minds, and capital required to take on any challenge.”

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92. “When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible.”

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93. “Toilets account for 31 percent of all water use in America.”

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94. “Today we have more than one and a half billion connections to the Internet. But this is small in comparison to the number of connections to the electric grid, which is at least tenfold larger. Just think of the number of electric appliances you have plugged in at home, compared to the number of IP addressable devices. This is a huge opportunity.”

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95. “Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.”

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96. “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.”

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97. “As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they’ll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.”

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98. “Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.”

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99. “Plus, doing anything big and bold is difficult, and at two in the morning for the fifth night in a row, when you need to keep going, you’re only going to fuel yourself from deep within. You’re not going to push ahead when it’s someone else’s mission. It needs to be yours.”

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100. “There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

— Peter H. Diamandis