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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.

Peter Diamandis

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
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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 get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.
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If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
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When faced without a challenge, make one
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It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
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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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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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As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.
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Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.
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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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You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
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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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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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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
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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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During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.
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