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I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Elon Musk

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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Distract Emotion Fear Lack
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
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
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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Entrepreneur Expectation Failure Start
Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Enough Intelligence Physics Run
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
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
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
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
Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.
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Advance Company Government Research Technology
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
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Accomplishment Business Country Culture Innovation Success
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
Elevator music is underrated.
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Elevator Music One Liner Underrated
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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Basket Business Control Egg Happen Inspirational
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
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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Engineer Existence Magic World

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