Quotes from Peter Diamandis

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

Government research has to go through peer review.

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.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

Private companies should be building businesses.

With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

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.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.