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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.

Elon Musk

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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Earth Life Problem Solve
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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Business Cake Company Creation Entrepreneur Ingredient Proportion
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
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
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
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Expensive Laptop Money Phone Product Technology
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
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I’ll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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Deal Enough Fear Important Quite Strong
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
Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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Afraid Arena Inspirational One Liner
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Broken Business Failure Need Product
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
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Direction Event Eventually Extinction Future Human Planet
Give people their freedom back!
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Freedom One Liner People
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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Death Eat Entrepreneur Glass
My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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Bridge Car Opinion
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
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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Human Need Planet Species

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