Peter Diamandis Quotes
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Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
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My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
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The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
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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.
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Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
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In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
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When hiring, trust your feelings.
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Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.
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By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
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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.
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If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
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As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
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The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
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As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
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Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
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You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
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The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
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Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.
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The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
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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.