Peter Diamandis Quotes

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Peter Diamandis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 20, 1961

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

Peter Diamandis

Private companies should be building businesses.

Peter Diamandis

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.

Peter Diamandis

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

Peter Diamandis

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Peter Diamandis

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.

Peter Diamandis

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

Peter Diamandis

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

Peter Diamandis

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Peter Diamandis

In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.

Peter Diamandis

Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.

Peter Diamandis