ambition Quotes

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.