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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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You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.
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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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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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The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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