Latest Peter Diamandis Quotes from Interviews

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• The first trillionaire can be made in space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Firsts, Made

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, Oil, American West

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.

  Peter Diamandis

  Class, Ideas, Iron

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Want, Way

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

  Peter Diamandis

  Ideas, Suvs, Pounds

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.

  Peter Diamandis

  Pda, Car, Attention

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

  Peter Diamandis

  Gps, Car, World

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Beautiful, Car, People

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.

  Peter Diamandis

  Car, Worst, Humans

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• 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?

  Peter Diamandis

  Beautiful, Car, Energy

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

  Peter Diamandis

  Years, Energy, Print

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.

  Peter Diamandis

  Years, People, India

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

  Peter Diamandis

  Crazy, Ideas, Government

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.

  Peter Diamandis

  Horse, Technology, Water

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

  Peter Diamandis

  Giving, Dollars, Demand

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Government, Aerospace, Boeing

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

• I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Libertarian, Economic

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

  Peter Diamandis

  Goal, Philanthropy

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Space, Way

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Stopping, Facts

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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

  Peter Diamandis

  Passion, Kids, Years

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

  Peter Diamandis

  Technology, Groups, Done

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Balance, Groups

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

• Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eye, Years, Two

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.