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31 quotes by Peter Diamandis

Peter H. Diamandis (/diːʌˈmændɪs/; born May 20, 1961) is a Greek-American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. He is also the former CEO and co-founder of the Zero-Gravity Corporation, the co-founder and vice chairman of...
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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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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... →

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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... →

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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

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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... →

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