“30% of people who have life-threatening illnesses don't take their medicine as prescribed, that's mind-blowing. These are not people who have a cold – these are people who are going to die if they don't take their medicine, and even in that situation, compliance is difficult.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

World's Most Cited Executive Coach & Leadership Development Expert

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It taught me the difference between the two types of people in the world. Those that own the store, and those that scrape shit off the floor. You have to decide which one you want to be.

— Kevin O’Leary

Shark Tank investor, businessman, and former Canadian political candidate

This kind of play improved all of my cognitive skills and really showed me how journeys that began with curiosity could turn into bigger dreams.

— Brian Grazer

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows

I was the kid that was wondering what was faster, a car or a bee… what if garbage cans were gold… I'd posit these what-if questions and throw them to people around me.

— Brian Grazer

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows

I didn't know that having face to face contact with people and being curious would be my medication…. And would save me. I didn't know curiosity was going to become a superpower in my life.

— Brian Grazer

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows

Just think; our bodies are not just one single individual…. We're collections of 30-40 trillion cells that work collaboratively to create you or me. Life began 4 billion years ago on this planet as very simple prokaryotic life forms evolved into more complex individual eukaryotic life forms, multicellular life and then eventually tissues and organs.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

Our minds are not structured for the pace of rapid change that we're seeing and, increasingly, will experience. It's therefore natural that our reaction is fear and a foot on the brake, but the reality is that exponential change doesn't have a dial that you can slow down.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

Today? we're at the precipice of taking a fundamental vacation from survival where instead of worrying about tomorrow, we can decide how to spend our time. When food, energy, healthcare and education are literally free to everyone, everywhere, what will humanity do with time? What an extraordinary opportunity?

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

We're heading to a world where all our energy is derived from the sun and from renewables, a world where we will have a squanderable abundance of energy. There's 6,000 times more energy hitting the surface of the Earth than we consume as a species.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

One way that we deal with the accelerating rate of change is by sort of riding on top of that tsunami of change rather than being crushed by it.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

We're living in a world of increasing, exponentially growing computational power. Technology is always on, always available, and we're now moving into the quantum computing era – these exponential technologies are enabling artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology, augmented reality, blockchain and allowing these technologies to converge, creating new business models.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

Speed and pace are important – the circumstances that brought people to the table can change over time, nothing is forever, nothing is static.

— Stephen Schwarzman