I ended up realizing that NASA was unlikely to get me into space, or get me to the moon or beyond, and I needed some other way to drive this.

You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.