Quotes from Peter Diamandis

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.