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" Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live. "
Peter Diamandis
Friends
See
Now
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" Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision. "
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" Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. "
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Reading
" If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. "
Peter Diamandis
Invention
You
Stop
" Government research has to go through peer review. "
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Peer
Go
Government
" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "
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Better
One Thing
Still
" With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink. "
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Water
Drink
Important
" Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. "
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Gossip
Information
Impact
" Old-style management is irrelevant. "
Peter Diamandis
Irrelevant
Management
" Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms. "
Peter Diamandis
Mistakes
Advertising
Creative
" Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' "
Peter Diamandis
Friends
Years
Remember
" Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time. "
Peter Diamandis
Abundance
Enjoy
Leisure
" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "
Peter Diamandis
Always
Since
Age
" Private companies should be building businesses. "
Peter Diamandis
Private
Companies
Building
" I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that. "
Peter Diamandis
Seeing
Inspire
More
" My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. "
Peter Diamandis
Space
Being
Effort
" As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. "
Peter Diamandis
Phones
Planet
Physician
" If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna. "
Peter Diamandis
Sky
Gold
Look
" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "
Peter Diamandis
Billion
Earth
Illiterate
" We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance. "
Peter Diamandis
Information
Abundance
World
" I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. "
Peter Diamandis
Where
Shop
Directors
" Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. "
Peter Diamandis
Whether
Airlines
Railroads
" Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach. "
Peter Diamandis
Problems
Opportunity
Technology
" 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. It's just not in usable form yet. "
Peter Diamandis
Year
Environmental
World
" I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. "
Peter Diamandis
Go
Think
Impatient
" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "
Peter Diamandis
Your
Toxic
Person
" It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world. "
Peter Diamandis
Been
Share
Ideas
" A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. "
Peter Diamandis
Building
Gold
Process
" People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. "
Peter Diamandis
Look
Business
Landscape
" Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it. "
Peter Diamandis
Camera
Today
Photographer
" WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware. "
Peter Diamandis
Average
Year
Voice