Peter Diamandis Quotes

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Peter Diamandis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 20, 1961

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

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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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Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

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

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In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

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In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

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

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

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Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

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I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

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If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

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An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

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My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

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Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.

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

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Government research has to go through peer review.

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

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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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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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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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