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When faced without a challenge, make one

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
Entrepreneur
Physician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Challenge
Challenges
Without
Make
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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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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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You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
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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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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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Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
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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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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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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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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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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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Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.
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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
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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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Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
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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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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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Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
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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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You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
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