Peter Diamandis

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

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.

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

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 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.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

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.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

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

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

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

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

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.

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

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.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

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.