Peter Diamandis Quotes

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

Politics is applied biology.

I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

To me, everything's competition.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

Big fish eat little fish.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.

Throw me to the wolves. I learn faster when I'm around wolves and sharks.

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

People from the beginning of time have always loved to watch two people in competition with each other. You go back to the gladiatorial shows, there's just something about it.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.