Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. "
Peter Diamandis
Printing
Entire
Manufacturing
Related Quotes:
" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "
Peter Diamandis
Better
One Thing
Still
" The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic. "
Peter Diamandis
Fact
Side
October
" Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking. "
Peter Diamandis
Thinking
Open Mind
Mind
" I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. "
Peter Diamandis
Go
Think
Impatient
" As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. "
Peter Diamandis
You
Bold
Company
" I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. "
Peter Diamandis
Where
Shop
Directors
" In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online. "
Peter Diamandis
Global
Percent
Population
" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "
Peter Diamandis
Billion
Earth
Illiterate
" In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family. "
Peter Diamandis
Countries
Family
More
" Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well. "
Peter Diamandis
Growth
Fact
Simple
" As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. "
Peter Diamandis
Cost
About
Tech
" I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives. "
Peter Diamandis
Feel Good
Think
Hope
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
Average
Years
Person
" If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering. "
Peter Diamandis
Purpose
Mission
Your
" Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision. "
Peter Diamandis
Stay True
Aim
True
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
People
School
Education
" Incentive prizes work. "
Peter Diamandis
Work
Incentive
Prizes
" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "
Peter Diamandis
Years
Average
Just
" Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. "
Peter Diamandis
Elon Musk
PayPal
Banking
" Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. "
Peter Diamandis
Capture
Beautiful
New
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
Flying
Foundation
Opportunity
" Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. "
Peter Diamandis
Business
Passion
Entrepreneur
" When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. "
Peter Diamandis
Bold
World
Talk
" As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920. "
Peter Diamandis
Degree
Women
Master
" Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them. "
Peter Diamandis
Generation
Fix
Time
" My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? "
Peter Diamandis
Small
Know
Design
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
Technology
Happiness
Social Media
" In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. "
Peter Diamandis
Before
Bubble
First
" As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. "
Peter Diamandis
Genes
Watch
Love
" Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields. "
Peter Diamandis
Drones
Data
Disease