Peter Diamandis Quotes - Page 3

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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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• I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

  Peter Diamandis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Water

  "Abundance is our future". TED2012, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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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.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Future, Space

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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.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, Energy, Needs

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

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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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• In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!

  Peter Diamandis

  School, Years, Organization

  "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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• Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Internet Access, People

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

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• NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Balance, Groups

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

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• One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

  Peter Diamandis

  Goal, Philanthropy

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

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• Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

  Peter Diamandis

  Giving, Dollars, Demand

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

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• In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Government, Aerospace, Boeing

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.

  Peter Diamandis

  Years, People, India

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

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• It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

  Peter Diamandis

  Government, Research, Fund

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• I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

  Peter Diamandis

  Opportunity, Space, Flying

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

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• I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Space, Way

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

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• My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

  Peter Diamandis

  Father, Islands, Doctors

  "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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• My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Effort, Childhood

  "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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• We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moving, Body, Earth

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

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• The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

  Peter Diamandis

  Men, Class, Minorities

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

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• Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

  Peter Diamandis

  Government, Trying, United States

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

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• I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Libertarian, Economic

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

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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.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Thinking, Ideas

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