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Elon Musk

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
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Attempt Experiment Failure Goals Imvention Invalid Space
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
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Life Mars Planet Possible Science
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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Collect Enlightenment Inspirational Sense Strive
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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Business Company Ideas Planning
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue
What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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Arena Profound Simplicity
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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Enough Entrepreneur Favour Important Inspirational
Innovation comes in many ways.
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Business Innovation Inspirational One Liner Positive
No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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Business Capacity Dead Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.
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Acomplishment Business Entrepreneur People Reason Work
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.
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CEO Company Entrepreneur Success Task Work
Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Enough Intelligence Physics Run
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
Best place to view is from the beach. Excitement guaranteed!
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Beach Excitement Guarantee Place Travel View
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I’ll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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Deal Enough Fear Important Quite Strong
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Forgiveness Grudge Let Go Life One Liner
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
Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up
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Manipulation Mess Moral Weapon
As a child I would just question things.
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Children Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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Business Force Give Up Important Inspirational Persistence
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
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
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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Earth Life Problem Solve
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
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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Change College Inspirational Involvement World

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