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Elon Musk

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!
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Elevator music is underrated.
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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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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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As a child I would just question things.
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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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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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.
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Work like hell.
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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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If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey.
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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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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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Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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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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Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
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If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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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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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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