Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
ELON MUSKI started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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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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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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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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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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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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For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
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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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Great companies are built on great products.
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Give people their freedom back!
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It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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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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The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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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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Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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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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I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Work like hell.
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I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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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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As a child I would just question things.
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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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There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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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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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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