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" The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities. "

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" I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' "

Peter Diamandis

Think

Wonder

Internet

" Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being. "

" Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. "

" Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking. "

" If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering. "

" Making things open-source brings the cost down. "

" As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. "

" Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making. "

" Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. "

" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "

" A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. "

" Incentive prizes work. "

" Private companies should be building businesses. "

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

" There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time? "

" 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. "

" Old-style management is irrelevant. "

Peter Diamandis

Irrelevant

Management

" As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. "

" 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. "

" Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. "

" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "

" If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. "

" Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. "

" In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. "

" 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. "

" In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent. "

" Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation. "

" I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that. "

Peter Diamandis

Seeing

Inspire

" Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. "

" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "