PETER DIAMANDIS

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.