Peter Diamandis Quotes

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

How will we deal with a world where leisure is abundant and there aren't enough good-paying jobs to go around? To meet this political and economic meta-challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.

As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

I don't see the point in working just to be working.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor to happiness. It is but honorary exile from ones family and affairs.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.