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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Elon Musk

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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Business Company Ideas Planning
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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Business Force Give Up Important Inspirational Persistence
Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
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Dedication Impossible Inspirational Work Hard
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
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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Change College Inspirational Involvement World
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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Book Reading
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Forgiveness Grudge Let Go Life One Liner
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
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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Earth Entension Life Moon Species
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
Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
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Business Determination Growth Innovation People Product Sell Start
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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Business Different Entrepreneur Inspirational Need
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
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Inspirational Learning People Sell Thinking Try
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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Entrepreneur Expectation Failure Start
Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.
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Aware Difference Existence Technology World
When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
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Business Inspirational Problem Struggle Understand
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
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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Destroy Figure Inspirational Love Positive World
You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
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Business Entrepreneur Passionate People Want
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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Happiness Passionate People Pretty Pursue
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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Gas Mars Planet Science Time
Mars is to Earth, as Terminus was to Trantor.
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Earth Mars Science Space
Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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Goodness Heart Personality Talent
I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Book Management Reading Time

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