Peter Diamandis Quotes
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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.
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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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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.
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When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
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Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
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An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
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In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
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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.
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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.
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When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
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With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
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One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
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Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
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Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
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Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
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Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.
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Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
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From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.