Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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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.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
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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?
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Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
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When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
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Private companies should be building businesses.
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We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.