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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German physicist and seer
We are limited only by our imagination.
Robert Collier (1885–1950), American author, opined a single idea can be worth a million dollars.
In today’s world, that sum probably should be upped — to perhaps a billion.
That’s inflation for you.
Forget Elon Musk.
He’s in a class by himself and there may be few, if any, like him in the future.
He has a wild imagination and high tolerance for risk.
He probably would have been lauded had he been successful in one arena, such as the electric car or Space X.
Make that several arenas (Tesla, Space X, Boring, Hyperloop, etc.) and you have someone truly sui generis, whose accomplishments go considerably beyond that of the average mortal.
Jeff Bezos.
Already reasonably successful, he mapped out the plans for Amazon, originally a seller of books, on his journey west in 1994 with then-wife MacKenzie.
He probably had little idea just how successful his idea would become.
Today he’s worth (it fluctuates day to day) close to $200B.
