Peter H. Diamandis > Quotes

“Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of possibility.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

“Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“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, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“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.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Culture is the ability to store, exchange, and improve ideas.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“The true measure of something’s worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Teaching kids how to nourish their creativity and curiosity, while still providing a sound foundation in critical thinking, literacy and math, is the best way to prepare them for a future of increasingly rapid technological change.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“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.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“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, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“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, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“if everyone on Earth wants to live like a North American, then we’re going to need five planets’ worth of resources to do”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Today most poverty-stricken Americans have a television, telephone, electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. Most Africans do not. If you transferred the goods and services enjoyed by those who live in California’s version of poverty to the average Somalian living on less than a $1.25 a day, that Somalian is suddenly fabulously rich.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“In hundreds of studies, researchers have consistently found that we overestimate our own attractiveness, intelligence, work ethic, chances for success”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Market segmentation matters. “It’s critical to craft your message for a specific audience,”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“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, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“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.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. But this has an immediate impact on”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“A 2013 report from the Oxford Martin School concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers (AI and robots) within the next two decades.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“Massively up the amount of novelty in your life; the research shows that new environments and experiences are often the jumping-off point for new ideas (more opportunity for pattern recognition).”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“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!”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“Most of today’s educational systems are built upon the same learning hierarchy: math and science at the top, humanities in the middle, art on the bottom. The reason for this is because these systems were developed in the nineteenth century, in the midst of the industrial revolution, when this hierarchy provided the best foundation for success. This is no longer the case. In a rapidly changing technological culture and an ever-growing information-based economy, creative ideas are the ultimate resource. Yet our current educational system does little to nourish this resource.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“All told, according to the United Nations, poverty was reduced more in the past fifty years than in the previous five hundred.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“There are 2.7 billion people in the developing world without access to financial services”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“Bill Joy famously pointed out: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“the true promise of abundance was one of creating a world of possibility: a world where everyone’s days are spent dreaming and doing, not scrapping and scraping.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“The reason, I believe, is even if you fail in doing something ambitious, you usually succeed in doing something important.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

“Today Americans living below the poverty line are not just light-years ahead of most Africans; they’re light-years ahead of the wealthiest Americans from just a century ago. Today 99 percent of Americans living below the poverty line have electricity, water, flushing toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 percent have a television; 88 percent have a telephone; 71 percent have a car; and 70 percent even have air-conditioning. This may not seem like much, but one hundred years ago men like Henry Ford and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the richest on the planet, but they enjoyed few of these luxuries.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think