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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.

Elon Musk

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
You 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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Business Entrepreneur Possible Wrong
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
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
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Hate Internet Personal Stuff Writing
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.
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CEO Company Entrepreneur Success Task Work
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Forgiveness Grudge Let Go Life One Liner
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
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Business Happen Miserable Motivational Pretty Yourself
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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As a child I would just question things.
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Children Inspirational Knowledge Learning
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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Communication Internet Possible
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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Cost Drive Greatness Space Transport
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
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
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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Life Mars Planet Possible Science
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent

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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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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