Top 100 Diamandis Quotes
#1. Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
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#2. Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
Peter Diamandis
#3. In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
Peter Diamandis
#4. 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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#5. 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
#6. It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
Peter Diamandis
#7. Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
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#8. 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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#9. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
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#10. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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#11. The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with.
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#12. Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
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#13. We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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#14. I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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#15. I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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#16. Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
Peter Diamandis
#17. 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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#18. Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
Peter Diamandis
#19. We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
Peter Diamandis
#20. 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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#21. Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
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#24. Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
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#25. Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
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#26. Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
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#27. Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.
Peter Diamandis
#28. My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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#29. I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
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#30. 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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#31. I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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#32. The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
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#33. Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
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#34. 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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#35. We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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#36. As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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#37. Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
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#38. What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
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#39. 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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#40. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
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#41. 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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#42. Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.
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#43. The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
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#44. The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
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#45. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.
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#46. If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years ... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
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#47. Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge,
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#48. I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
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#49. There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
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#50. 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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#52. I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
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#54. People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
Peter Diamandis
#55. For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse - no question about it.
Peter H. Diamandis
#56. 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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#57. Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
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#58. 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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#59. After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
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#60. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
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#61. By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
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#62. 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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#63. Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've 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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#64. Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#68. The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
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#77. Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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#78. 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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#79. I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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#81. I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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#82. What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
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#83. 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
#84. 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.
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#85. As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
Peter Diamandis
#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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#89. Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
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#90. An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
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#91. One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
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#92. When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
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#93. Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
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#94. Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
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#95. If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
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#96. 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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#98. Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
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#99. Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
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#100. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
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