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

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
I always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
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Feeling Going Travel
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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Business Company Ideas Planning
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
Work like hell.
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Business Entrepreneur Hell Motivational One Liner Work
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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Distract Emotion Fear Lack
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 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
Innovation comes in many ways.
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Business Innovation Inspirational One Liner Positive
Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Enough Intelligence Physics Run
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
Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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Afraid Arena Inspirational One Liner
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
That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
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Entrepreneur Kill Lesson Vacation
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
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
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We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!
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Beyond Business Excitement Future Horizon Inspirational Strive
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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Earth Entension Life Moon Species
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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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
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
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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Death Eat Entrepreneur Glass
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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Disappointment Hope Human Lifetime Mars
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
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
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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Human Need Planet Species
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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Entrepreneur Expectation Failure Start

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