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“The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”
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“Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.”
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“We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.”
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“Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.”
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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 of possibility.”
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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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“Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.”
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“Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.”
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“An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.”
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“The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.”
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“If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.”
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“When faced without a challenge, make one”
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“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.”
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“It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.”
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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 nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity’s grandest challenge,”
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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 way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.”
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“More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.”
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“Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.”
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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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“If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.”
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“Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.”
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“I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately we knock them down.”
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“Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.”
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“During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.”
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“In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!”
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“Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.”
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“Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.”
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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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“You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.”
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“The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing,”
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