Jeff Bezos Quotes

Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in West Texas and on the Gulf Coast, in California and on the Virginia coast, and rising from the ashes of the old space program in Florida and in small shops and university labs in a hundred places in between.

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.

It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.

The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.

I have more than 70 space companies in the pipeline.

If there's going to be the development of a commercial space economy, whatever it is, shouldn't you do your exploration to prepare a path for what's going to come next?

By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

NewSpace is everything we want in this nation: energy, entrepreneurship, and excitement that spurs education, innovation, and an enlightened approach to the future.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

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

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

If space is not profitable for business, there will be very few people in space.

When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.