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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?' "

Peter Diamandis

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" 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. "

" As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. "

" 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. "

" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. "

" 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. "

Peter Diamandis

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Innovation

" Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields. "

" At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate. "

" 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. "

" The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people. "

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

" Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration. "

" My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. "

" True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big. "

" Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away. "

" 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. "