"A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market."

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Source : "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

Burt Rutan

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Tickets Quotes

“San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings.......for it takes no money......it takes no compromising to give the people their rights......it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.”
“Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.”

Source : Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.233, Profile Books
“Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.”
“Injuries, burns, and bruises will heal. But victory lasts forever.”
“Life's hard, Love's harder.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2012). “Taken at Dusk: A Shadow Falls Novel”, p.100, St. Martin's Griffin
“God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.”
“If you don't let your past die, then it won't let you live. Â Period.”

Source : FaceBook post by Perry Noble from Sep 22, 2012
“Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.”

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