Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that’s the game we’re playing today.
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
After more than a decade as the editor of ‘Wired’ magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams – a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics – to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it’s my friend Steve Forbes.
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
I don’t think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
With faster Internet and better computers, you’d better believe we’re creating and consuming more digital data.
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.
When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission’s chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We’re rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn’t pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
If you have a fear of flying, don’t. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
Because it’s cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it’s not about the money or the technology: It’s about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It’s just not in usable form yet.
I think that we’re living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.