“a tendency for people to view their own beliefs as reality.” — Peter H. Diamandis Beliefs Copy Share Image
“Slingshot, for the technology that David used to bring down Goliath.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“one child in front of a computer learns little; four discussing and debating learn a lot.” — Peter H. Diamandis Children Copy Share Image
“Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant.” — Peter H. Diamandis Technology Copy Share Image
“Culture is the ability to store, exchange, and improve ideas.” — Peter H. Diamandis Ability Copy Share Image
“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.” — Peter H. Diamandis Optimists Copy Share Image
“The point is this: When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible. Yet the threat… — Peter H. Diamandis Scarcity Copy Share Image
“You can burn the fecal portion of the waste and use that energy to completely clean up the urine, turning it back… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“the value of the ecosystems services our environment now provides (for free) has been calculated at $36 trillion a year—a figure roughly… — Peter H. Diamandis Ecosystems Copy Share Image
“Decentralized means learning cannot easily be curtailed by autocratic governments and is considerably more immune to socioeconomic upheaval.” — Peter H. Diamandis Decentralized Copy Share Image
“Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury—rather it’s about providing all with a life of… — Peter H. Diamandis Abundance Copy Share Image
“Each of us starts with the same twenty-four hours in the day. How we utilize those hours determines the quality of our… — Peter H. Diamandis Life Copy Share Image
“With 97.3 percent of the water on the planet too salty for consumption, and another 2 percent locked up as polar ice,” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Clay Shirky uses the term “cognitive surplus” to describe this process. He defines it as “the ability of the world’s population to… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“This difference is key. Thinking in probabilities—this business has a 60 percent chance of success—rather than deterministically—if I do A and B,… — Peter H. Diamandis Business Copy Share Image
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis Aversion Copy Share Image
“sixty-seven years.14 Not anymore. Today the final three Ds in our chain reaction can disassemble companies and disrupt industries almost overnight, reducing… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“The adjacent possible” is theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman’s wonderful term for all the myriad paths unlocked by every novel discovery, the multitude… — Peter H. Diamandis Abundance Copy Share Image
“It’s incredible,” he says, “this moaning pessimism, this knee-jerk, things-are-going-downhill reaction from people living amid luxury and security that their ancestors would… — Peter H. Diamandis Abundance Copy Share Image
“our early warning system evolved in an era of immediacy, when threats were of the tiger-in-the-bush variety. Things have changed since. Many… — Peter H. Diamandis Danger Copy Share Image
“I’ve got a hunk of gold and you have a watch. If we trade, then I have a watch and you have… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Teaching kids how to nourish their creativity and curiosity, while still providing a sound foundation in critical thinking, literacy and math, is… — Peter H. Diamandis Creativity Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago, it was only kings, pharaohs, and emperors who had the ability to solve large-scale problems. Hundreds of years… — Peter H. Diamandis Business Copy Share Image
“It’s so hard to catch something that everybody already knows is hot,” says Bezos. “Instead, position yourself and wait for the wave… — Peter H. Diamandis Business Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford, when asked about his employees, said it best: “None of our men are ‘experts.’ We have most unfortunately found it… — Peter H. Diamandis Pressing forward Copy Share Image
“Last, and perhaps most importantly, Bold is a playbook. Our deepest hope is that it inspires you to get off the couch… — Peter H. Diamandis Angry birds Copy Share Image
“Quirky, Airbnb, and Uber are great examples of entrepreneurs taking advantage of the expanding scale of exponential impact. They have created billion-dollar… — Peter H. Diamandis Board of directors Copy Share Image
“But not every goal is the same. “We found that if you want the largest increase in motivation and productivity,” says Latham,… — Peter H. Diamandis Goals Copy Share Image
“Yet for these high, hard goals to really work their magic, Locke and Latham found that certain moderators—the word psychologists use to… — Peter H. Diamandis Goals Copy Share Image
“And this is one of the first things one learns from Musk’s example—he is relentless in his pursuit of the bold and,… — Peter H. Diamandis Business Copy Share Image
“Bill Joy famously pointed out: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“The greatest tool we have for tackling our grand challenges is the passionate and dedicated human mind.” — Peter H. Diamandis Human mind Copy Share Image
“Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos, helped disrupt the retail space by emphasizing mastery, making the “pursuit of growth and learning” central to… — Peter H. Diamandis Failure Copy Share Image
“Ecosystem services are things like crop pollination, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water purification, air purification, nutrient dispersal, nutrient recycling, waste processing, flood… — Peter H. Diamandis Ecosystem Copy Share Image
“Autonomy is the desire to steer our own ship. Mastery is the desire to steer it well. And purpose is the need… — Peter H. Diamandis Autonomy Copy Share Image
