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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Elon Musk

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me.
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Acomplishment Business Entrepreneur People Reason Work
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
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Accomplishment Business Country Culture Innovation Success
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
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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Business Force Give Up Important Inspirational Persistence
When people really understand it’s do or die . If we work hard and pull through, it’s going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they’ve got.
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Die Outcome People Understand Work Hard
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
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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Brand Impression Perception Product Reality Time
Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
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Inspirational Learning People Sell Thinking Try
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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Book Reading
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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Basket Business Control Egg Happen Inspirational
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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Happiness Passionate People Pretty Pursue
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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Human Need Planet Species
There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Optimism Risk Tremendous Try
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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Business Capacity Dead Entrepreneur Give Up Inspirational
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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Business Company Creation Done Entrepreneur Sake

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