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
challenges together band
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.
mean past lines
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
dream space bigs
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
school trying medical
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
moon space way
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.
warrior technology years
A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
people way helping
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
experts done
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
space libertarian economic
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.
creating luxury abundance
Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.
long generations problem
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.
rate-of-change rate constant
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing,
goal philanthropy
One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.
people risk blame
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.