You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.
ELON MUSKThat’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
More Elon Musk Quotes
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Innovation comes in many ways.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
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The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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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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If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is failure.
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Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.
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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!
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When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.
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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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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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Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
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Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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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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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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