The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

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

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

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!

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

When faced without a challenge, make one

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.