When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
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If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed. No task is too menial.
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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning.
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If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is failure.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.
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No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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People will buy the car just because it’s a great car. We want them to think it’s excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.
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Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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I read books and talked to people. I mean that’s kind of how one learns anything. There’s lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
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Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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