“of these are services we can yet provide for ourselves.” — Peter H. Diamandis Service Copy Share Image
“Six thousand years ago, we domesticated the horse; a” — Peter H. Diamandis Thousand years 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Age life 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
“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
“Currently the majority of the world’s seven thousand desalination plants rely on thermal desalination (often called “multistage flash”) or reverse osmosis. The… — Peter H. Diamandis 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
“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
“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
“a tendency for people to view their own beliefs as reality.” — Peter H. Diamandis Faith Copy Share Image
“Slingshot, for the technology that David used to bring down Goliath.” — Peter H. Diamandis David Copy Share Image
“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.” — Peter H. Diamandis Pessimism 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
“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
“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 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 Technology 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 Burn Fecal 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 Percent Water 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 Surplus 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“the right words. In 2014, researchers at Georgia Tech published a study in which they examined over nine million words and phrases… — Peter H. Diamandis Education 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
“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
