Peter Diamandis Quotes

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

The decisions you make when you leave school define the rest of your life. So, in terms of making the right choices for your financial security as you get older, my best advice is to do something you have an interest in and are passionate about, as you'll be working for a long time.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

We're not getting any younger.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.