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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.