If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
ELON MUSKThere’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up
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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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If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey.
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The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
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You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
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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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A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.
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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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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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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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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
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