Top 100 Peter Diamandis Quotes

#1. Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

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#2. In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

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#3. 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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#4. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

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#5. The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.

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#6. Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

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#7. We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

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#8. I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

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#9. I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

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#10. It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

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#11. Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

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

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#13. If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

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#14. I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

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#15. I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

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#16. As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

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#17. The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

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

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#19. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.

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#20. I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

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#21. One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

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#22. 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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#23. Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

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#24. Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

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#25. By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

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#26. Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.

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#27. Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

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#28. As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.

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#29. Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD ... over and over again.

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#30. Old-style management is irrelevant.

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#31. 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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#32. Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

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#33. Government research has to go through peer review.

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#34. As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.

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#35. Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

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#36. Technology is a resource liberating force!

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#37. What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

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#38. You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

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#39. 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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#40. One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

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#41. Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

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#42. Abundance is not about providing everyone on this planet with a life of luxury - rather it's about providing all with a life of possibility.

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#43. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

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#44. Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

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#45. 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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#46. Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

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#47. 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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#48. The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.

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#49. True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

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#50. I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

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#51. The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

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#52. Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not ... because if you have that, you will have gold.

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#53. The first trillionaire can be made in space.

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#54. The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

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#55. We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

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#56. Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

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#57. The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

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#58. 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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#59. In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

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#60. Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

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#61. 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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#62. Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

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#63. In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

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#64. Making things open-source brings the cost down.

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#65. You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.

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#66. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

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#67. If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

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#68. 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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#69. We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.

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#70. In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.

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#74. Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

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#75. It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

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#76. 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.

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#77. Private companies should be building businesses.

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#78. 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.

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#79. Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

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#80. Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

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#81. 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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#82. Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

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#83. I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

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#84. If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

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#85. 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.

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#86. The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

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

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#88. In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

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#89. Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

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

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#91. When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

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#92. A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.

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#93. If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

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#94. Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

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#95. At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

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#96. The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

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#97. What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

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#98. With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.

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#99. We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

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#100. Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.

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