"My father, who grew up picking olives on……" — Peter Diamandis
"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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131 Quotes by Peter Diamandis
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A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25…
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate…
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Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our…
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Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race…
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Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life…
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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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Technology is a resource liberating force!
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If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop…
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You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
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Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and…
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An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But…
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but…
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You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your…
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
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I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two…
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas…
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil.…
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because…
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