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There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Elon Musk

There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
ELON MUSK

Optimism Risk Tremendous Try
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 don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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Business Company Ideas Planning
Great companies are built on great products.
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Business Company Greatness One Liner Product
For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
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Business Entrepreneur Future Human Money Problem Solve
I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
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Feeling Going Travel
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.
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Business Entrepreneur Possible Wrong
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
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
If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is failure.
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Business Enough Failure Important Inspirational Outcome Probable Try
People will buy the car just because it’s a great car. We want them to think it’s excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.
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Buy Car Excellence Happen Money People Value
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Business Enough Failure Innovation Option
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
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Business Company Entrepreneur Investment Money Myself People
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
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
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Business Constant Criticism Gold Seek Value

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