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.
ELON MUSKThere’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
More Elon Musk Quotes
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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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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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My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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As a child I would just question things.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.
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You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
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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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