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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.

Elon Musk

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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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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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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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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The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
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Great companies are built on great products.
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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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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.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand 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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You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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Mars is to Earth, as Terminus was to Trantor.
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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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