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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.

Elon Musk

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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Direction Event Eventually Extinction Future Human Planet
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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Enjoyment Goals Important Morning People Work
Great companies are built on great products.
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Business Company Greatness One Liner Product
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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CEO Department Design Engineer Market Office Path
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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Future Inspirational Morning Positive Thinking
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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If heat death is the end of the universe, it really is all about the journey.
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Death Ending Heat Journey Universe
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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Earth Entension Life Moon Species
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
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Only the heart senses beauty.
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Beautiful Heart One Liner Positive Sense
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.
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That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
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Entrepreneur Kill Lesson Vacation
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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Collect Enlightenment Inspirational Sense Strive
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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Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue

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