134 Quotes by Peter H. Diamandis

The adjacent possible” is theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman’s wonderful term for all the myriad paths unlocked by every novel discovery, the multitude of universes hidden inside something as simple as an idea. 27 Abundance is one of those simple ideas. Its time has come. It.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We’re going to move out to other planetary bodies.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Simplicity was really important to me. I wanted people to expend their creativity thinking about new things to design, not about how to work the machines.

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

The first real threat it faced, today’s ridesharing model, only showed up in the last decade. But that ridesharing model won’t even get ten years to dominate. Already, it’s on the brink of autonomous car displacement, which is on the brink of flying car disruption, which is on the brink of Hyperloop and rockets-to-anywhere decimation. Plus, avatars. The most important part: All of this change will happen over the next ten years.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical.