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
attitude thinking careers
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.
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.
research unrest violence
Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.
ideas pounds suvs
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
uplifting impact literacy
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
years world energy
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
government research fund
It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
philosophy creating want
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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.
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.
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.
quality life-is function
The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.
space want way
You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.
internet-access eight people
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.