If You Can Make A Big Impact

One Of My Goals Is To Reinvent Philanthropy.

Super-ambitious Goals Tend To Be Unifying And Energizing To People; But Only If They Believe There's A Chance Of Success.

I Get Demoralized By Organizations That Start Off With A Mission And Pull Back When They Find It's Risky.

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 Do Something More And More And It Met Those Needs. But The Easy Stuff Has Been Done.

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.