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

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
Entrepreneur
Physician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
General
Creating
Philosophy
Future

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What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
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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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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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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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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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We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet it's about creating a life of possibility.
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The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
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A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
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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.
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You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
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When faced without a challenge, make one
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You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
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By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
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If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.
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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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Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.
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As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.
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Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
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