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
phones cost physicians
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
news bad-news sells
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
organization back-when missions
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
humanity earth way
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
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.
technology force resources
Technology is a resource liberating force!
giving-up persistence luck
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
government trying today
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
eye years two
Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.
technology done growing
Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.
kids passion years
I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
moon facts stopping
I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.
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.