Occupation: Physician Birth: May 20, 1961
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking..
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people..
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear..
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck..
Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in t….
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020..
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix th….
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains..
Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would ….
The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea..
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society..
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing..
The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what ha….
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities..
Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens..
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done..
Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs..
I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see..
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 ….
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering..
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician..