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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• 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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• 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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• More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

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  Challenges, Together, Band

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• You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

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  Crazy, Fake, Needs

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2012). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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

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  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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• 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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• You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.

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  Company

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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.

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  Data, Perception, Brain

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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.

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  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.

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

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

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  Beautiful, Car, People

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

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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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• 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 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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• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

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  Ideas, Suvs, Pounds

  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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• Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve 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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  Attitude, Thinking, Careers

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• The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

  Peter Diamandis

  Years, Energy, Print

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

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