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" When hiring, trust your feelings. "
Peter Diamandis
Trust
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" An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four. "
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" At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things. "
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" We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy. "
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" Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. "
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" Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child. "
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" There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time? "
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" If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. "
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People
" In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. "
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" The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities. "
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" Private companies should be building businesses. "
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" As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior. "
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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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" My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. "
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" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "
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" Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. "
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" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "
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Earth
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" The truest drive comes from doing what you love. "
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" As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. "
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" The fact is that data are worth a lot of money. "
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" I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before. "
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" If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. "
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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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" Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. "
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" As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. "
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" The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. "
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" Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. "
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