Quotes from Peter Diamandis

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.