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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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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
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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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The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.
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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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What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
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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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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 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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Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
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The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
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The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
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When faced without a challenge, make one
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One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.
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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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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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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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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.
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What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.
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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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It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
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