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1 " [L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs—meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

2 " For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse—no question about it. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

3 " for entrepreneurs interested in building Watson-backed business, Cane was stunned by how easy it was to work with IBM. “They provided so much support and guidance,” he explains, “that we were able to build our entire Watson-powered prototype in two weeks. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

4 " By 2020, a chip with today’s processing power will cost about a penny,” CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explained in a recent article for Big Think,23 “which is the cost of scrap paper. . . . Children are going to look back and wonder how we could have possibly lived in such a meager world, much as when we think about how our own parents lacked the luxuries—cell phone, Internet—that we all seem to take for granted. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

5 " Just three or four decades ago, if you wanted to access a thousand core processors, you’d need to be the chairman of MIT’s computer science department or the secretary of the US Defense Department. Today the average chip in your cell phone can perform about a billion calculations per second. Yet today has nothing on tomorrow. “By 2020, a chip with today’s processing power will cost about a penny,” CUNY theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explained in a recent article for Big Think,23 “which is the cost of scrap paper. . . . Children are going to look back and wonder how we could have possibly lived in such a meager world, much as when we think about how our own parents lacked the luxuries—cell phone, Internet—that we all seem to take for granted. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

6 " The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

7 " There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

8 " Right now, and for the first time ever, a passionate and committed individual has access to the technology, minds, and capital required to take on any challenge. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

9 " Biotechnology isn’t just accelerating at the speed of Moore’s law, it’s accelerating at five times the speed of Moore’s law—doubling in power and halving in price every four months! "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

10 " Market segmentation matters. “It’s critical to craft your message for a specific audience, "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

11 " The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

12 " Massively up the amount of novelty in your life; the research shows that new environments and experiences are often the jumping-off point for new ideas (more opportunity for pattern recognition). "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

13 " The reason, I believe, is even if you fail in doing something ambitious, you usually succeed in doing something important. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

14 " A 2013 report from the Oxford Martin School concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers (AI and robots) within the next two decades. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

15 " when Steve Jobs said that the goal of every entrepreneur should be to “put a dent in the universe”—he wasn’t talking about inventing the next Angry Birds. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

16 " But in dozens and dozens of studies, Latham and Locke found that setting goals increased performance and productivity 11 to 25 percent.5 That’s quite a boost. If an eight-hour day is our baseline, that’s like getting two extra hours of work simply by building a mental frame (aka a goal) around the activity. But not every goal is the same. “We found that if you want the largest increase in motivation and productivity,” says Latham, “then big goals lead to the best outcomes. Big goals significantly outperform small goals, medium-sized goals, and vague goals. It comes down to attention and persistence—which are two of the most important factors in determining performance. Big goals help focus attention, and they make us more persistent. The result is we’re much more effective when we work, and much more willing to get up and try again when we fail. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

17 " Creating a company with autonomy, mastery, and purpose as key values means creating a company built for speed. And this is no longer optional. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

18 " Simplicity was really important to me. I wanted people to expend their creativity thinking about new things to design, not about how to work the machines. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

19 " The science shows that . . . typical twentieth-century carrot-and-stick motivators—things we consider somehow a “natural” part of human enterprise—can sometimes work. But they’re effective in only a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. The science shows that “if-then” rewards . . . are not only ineffective in many situations, but can also crush the high-level, creative, conceptual abilities that are central to current and future economic and social progress. The science shows that the secret to high performance isn’t our biological drive (our survival needs) or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive—our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to fill our life with purpose. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

20 " To reach flow,” explains psychiatrist Ned Hallowell,22 “one must be willing to take risks. "

― Peter H. Diamandis , Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World