Quotes from Peter Diamandis

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

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.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

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.