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" True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. "
Peter Diamandis
Product
True
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" As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd. "
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" As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. "
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" 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. "
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" I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' "
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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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Best
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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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Time
" My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? "
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Know
Design
" If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family. "
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Wealth
Goal
Look
" Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live. "
Peter Diamandis
Friends
See
Now
" The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people. "
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Help
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" The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt. "
Peter Diamandis
Challenge
Crazy
Before
" Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. "
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More
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" Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space. "
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Always
Since
Age
" 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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Money
World
Today
" It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. "
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Now
Head
Body
" Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. "
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True
Thinking
" When hiring, trust your feelings. "
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Trust
Hiring
Feelings
" In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent. "
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Planet
Percent
People
" In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. "
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Flight
Cost
United States
" Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. "
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Eight
Access
Will
" In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. "
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African-American
Babies
" After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones. "
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" 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. "
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Intelligence
Research
Work
" 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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Business
Camera
" I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case. "
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Need
Think
College
" The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know. "
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Rock
Brain
Impact
" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "
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Years
Average
Just
" As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance. "
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Man
Child
Education
" 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. "
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Child
Help
World