7. Jeff Bezos

CEO, Amazon

“Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

8. Peter Thiel

VC and Hedge Fund Manager

"To understand businesses and startups in 2012, you have to do the truly contrarian thing: you have to think for yourself. The question of what is valuable is a much better question than debating bubble or no bubble. The value question gets better as it gets more specific: is company X valuable? Why? How should we figure that out? Those are the questions we need to ask."

9. JK Rowling

Author

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."