Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
ELON MUSKPhysics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
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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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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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Great companies are built on great products.
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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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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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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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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
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I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
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Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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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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Only the heart senses beauty.
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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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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Mars is to Earth, as Terminus was to Trantor.
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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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Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
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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 would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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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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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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