I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.
Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.
Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
Science has unknown bounds. You just can’t tie the hands of scientists.
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.
We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.
If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
Even students from rural India may have bright ideas. They need to be tapped.
I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.
Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.
As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
