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" The truest drive comes from doing what you love. "

Peter Diamandis

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" Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well. "

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" When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?' "

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" 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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" As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. "

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" Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. "

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" If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family. "

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" My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. "

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" In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "

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" If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. "

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" We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing. "

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" As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. "

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" Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. "

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" The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. "

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" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "

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" My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. "

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" When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars. "

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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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" I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. "

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" The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online. "

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" Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging? "

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" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

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" It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford. "

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" Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. "

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