Peter Diamandis Quotes - Page 2

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• Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Space, Bigs

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• If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Risk, Blame

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.

  Peter Diamandis

  Class, Ideas, Iron

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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

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  Phones, Physicians, Cost

  "Peter Diamandis: The Future of Business Is Rosy". bigthink.com.

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• Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

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  Borders, Research, Unrest

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

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  Opportunity, World, Problem

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 16, 2015.

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• The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

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  Beautiful, Car, Energy

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

  Peter Diamandis

  Country, Doctors, Way

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

  Peter Diamandis

  Data, Perception, Brain

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• If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

  Peter Diamandis

  Uplifting, Impact, Problem

  "A decade to mass extinction event in S&P 500". Interview with Lori Ioannou, www.cnbc.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.

  Peter Diamandis

  Car, Worst, Humans

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

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  Long, Generations, Problem

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• At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things

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  Smart, Thinking, Transition

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• The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

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  Crazy, Ideas, Government

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.

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  Horse, Technology, Water

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

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  Organization, Back When, Missions

  "Prof. Hawking Goes Weightless - The True Story" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

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  Moon, Stopping, Facts

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

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  Warrior, Technology, Years

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

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  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

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  Believe, Energy, Needs

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

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  Dream, Future, Space

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• If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, War, Fighting

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• The first trillionaire can be made in space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Firsts, Made

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, People, Goal

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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.

  Peter Diamandis

  School, Trying, Medical

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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