Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis
Peter H. Diamandisis a Greek–American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of Space Adventures...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 May 1961
organization back-when missions
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
thinking moon ideas
I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
humanity earth way
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
internet-access eight people
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
dream childhood effort
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
father islands doctors
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.
quality life-is function
The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.
moving body earth
We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
opportunity space flying
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.
technology force resources
Technology is a resource liberating force!
country doctors way
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
believe needs world
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.
dream future hands
During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.
giving-up persistence luck
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.