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" Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant. "
Peter Diamandis
People
Life
Game
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" Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. "
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" Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. "
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Technology
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" 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. "
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Printing
Labor
Will
" The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic. "
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Side
October
" In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. "
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Years
Two
Average
" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "
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Billion
Earth
Illiterate
" The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. "
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Successful
Build
Gold
" The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child. "
Peter Diamandis
Child
Help
World
" When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. "
Peter Diamandis
Creating
Think
Luxury
" From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. "
Peter Diamandis
Know
Now
Point Of View
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
Risks
Company
Risk
" Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward. "
Peter Diamandis
Innovation
Attitude
Legacy
" When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. "
Peter Diamandis
Bold
World
Talk
" Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. "
Peter Diamandis
Negative
Look
Information
" Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. "
Peter Diamandis
Never
Many
Consumers
" Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream. "
Peter Diamandis
Bold
Work
Vision
" Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. "
Peter Diamandis
Who
True
Thinking
" 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. "
Peter Diamandis
Water
Drink
Important
" What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live? "
Peter Diamandis
Live
Think
Today
" If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. "
Peter Diamandis
Intelligence
Research
Work
" I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness. "
Peter Diamandis
Broaden
Access
Started
" Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being. "
Peter Diamandis
Decisions
Business
Children
" Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. "
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Start
Business
Camera
" Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. "
Peter Diamandis
Focused
Attention
Challenges
" I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' "
Peter Diamandis
Think
Wonder
Internet
" We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing. "
Peter Diamandis
Change
Where
Only
" As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. "
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Day
Medical
New
" Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine. "
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Create
Engine
Job
" 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
" Incentive prizes work. "
Peter Diamandis
Work
Incentive
Prizes