Peter Diamandis Quotes

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Peter Diamandis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 20, 1961

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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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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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.

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I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

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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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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.

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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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So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

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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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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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Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

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