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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Elon Musk

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
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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Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
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What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is failure.
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You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
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If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
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If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey.
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I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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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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For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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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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