Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs..

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

What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back th….

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….

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 t….

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' hav….

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky..

Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely ….

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned tha….

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….

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly..

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

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either….

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space..

The first trillionaire can be made in space..

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

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commerc….

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable..

Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonp….

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species..

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 makin….