Peter Diamandis Quotes

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

The incredible talent that has assembled at Hyperloop One is what is making it possible. I don't just think it's a technology story, I think it's a human story. It's those hearts and that passion of everyone and the commitment that is distorting reality and making this possible as fast as it is.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

A good head has one hundred hands.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?