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That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

Elon Musk

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue
Goal of government should be to maximize the happiness of the people. Giving each person money allows them to decide what meets their needs, rather than the blunt tool of legislation, which creates self-serving special interests.
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Giving Government Happiness Interest Money People
Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up
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Manipulation Mess Moral Weapon
Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Enough Intelligence Physics Run
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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Death Eat Entrepreneur Glass
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
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Attempt Experiment Failure Goals Imvention Invalid Space
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
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Brand Impression Perception Product Reality Time
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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CEO Department Design Engineer Market Office Path
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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Entrepreneur Expectation Failure Start
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Forgiveness Grudge Let Go Life One Liner
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
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Business Happen Miserable Motivational Pretty Yourself
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Life Mars Planet Possible Science
Great companies are built on great products.
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Business Company Greatness One Liner Product
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Choose Extraordinary Inspirational Ordinary People Possible
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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CEO Company Entrepreneur Success Task Work

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