Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

Success is not how much money you have in a bank. Success is how many lives you have touched.

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.