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.
ELON MUSKYou 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 do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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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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Great companies are built on great products.
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Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
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For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
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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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Best place to view is from the beach. Excitement guaranteed!
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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning.
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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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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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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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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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