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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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" 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

" In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online. "

" An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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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Grow

" I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' "

" Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking. "

" By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off. "

Peter Diamandis

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. "

" Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. "

" 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. "

" Making things open-source brings the cost down. "

" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "

" We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers. "

" Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. "

" The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. "

" 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. "

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

" Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. "

" In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. "