Martine Rothblatt Quotes

“Persistence is omnipotence. If you don't give up, you won't fail.”

“I realized that it is not crazy to make something that never existed before; in fact, it seemed natural to the people I read about.”

“Yes, I will always be your father.”

“I love your soul, and whether the outside is 'Martin' or 'Martine,' it doesn't matter to me because I love your soul.”

“It was a challenge to not drop out of high school in these circumstances.”

“My goal is to create a world where everyone can live forever.”

“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”

“We are all the authors of our own lives.”

“The only limits are the ones we impose on ourselves.”

“I believe in the power of technology to change lives.”

“Every day is a new opportunity to innovate and improve.”

“To me, the essence of being human is to be able to change and adapt.”

“I always kept it bottled up and just showed my male side.”

“I decided that I would find a cure for my daughter.”

“I have been called 'a perpetual inventor.”

“The main challenge I faced was the fear that if I shared my true identity, I would be laughed at or made an outcast.”

“My parents bucked conventional medical wisdom and painstakingly worked to find a cure for my father's disability.”

“I grew to love biographies of famous inventors.”

“I piloted the world's first electric helicopter to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration.”

“I said, 'But they pay for TV.' They said, 'That's different.' So I could not get the existing industry to agree to do this.”

“I can't claim that what I have achieved is equivalent to what a woman has achieved. For the first half of my life, I was male.”

“I believe in a foreseeable future in which the beloved dead will live again as digital beings, reanimated by sophisticated artificial-intelligence programs that will be as cheap and accessible to every person as iTunes.”

“Identify the corridors of indifference and run like hell down them.”

“I am a viciously goal-oriented person, and my partner Bina is as well. So sometimes a challenging house to grow up in. But both of us, we have daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, and we just viciously pursue our goals.”

“I thought about it like I was getting subscribers at SiriusXM. People said to me, 'Oh, Martine, you'll be lucky to have a hundred thousand subscribers.' I said, 'Well, if I keep them and I get another hundred thousand the next year, then I'll be up to 200,000 and then maybe 400,000 and 800,000.' Now we have 30 million. So they didn't think in that subscriber mindset.”

“If people have a goal that they can really see that they can change the world in five to ten years, they'll put their all into it.”

“A lightning bolt to your soul.”