There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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More Elon Musk Quotes
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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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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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The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.
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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 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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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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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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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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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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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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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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No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
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Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
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If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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Innovation comes in many ways.
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