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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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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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More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
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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 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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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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You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
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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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You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake 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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One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.
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The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
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You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.
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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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Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
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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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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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We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.
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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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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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