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You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

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
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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CEO Department Design Engineer Market Office Path
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
Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I’ll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.
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Deal Enough Fear Important Quite Strong
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Advice Business Constant Improvement Success
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
Work like hell.
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Business Entrepreneur Hell Motivational One Liner Work
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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Attempt Experiment Failure Goals Imvention Invalid Space
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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Change College Inspirational Involvement World
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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Business Entrepreneur Expectation Future Inspirational Worse
Elevator music is underrated.
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Elevator Music One Liner Underrated
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
Goal of government should be to maximize the happiness of the people. Giving each person money allows them to decide what meets their needs, rather than the blunt tool of legislation, which creates self-serving special interests.
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Giving Government Happiness Interest Money People
We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!
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Beyond Business Excitement Future Horizon Inspirational Strive
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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Business Cake Company Creation Entrepreneur Ingredient Proportion
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

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