Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

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.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

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

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.