You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

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

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.