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If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Elon Musk

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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Business Car Drive Extension Safety
What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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Arena Profound Simplicity
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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Gas Mars Planet Science Time
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 do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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Communication Internet Possible
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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Business Company Entrepreneur Investment Money Myself People
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
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
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
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Business Enough Failure Innovation Option
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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Death Eat Entrepreneur Glass
People will buy the car just because it’s a great car. We want them to think it’s excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.
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Buy Car Excellence Happen Money People Value
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Broken Business Failure Need Product
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
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
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
Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.
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Aware Difference Existence Technology World
Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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Appreciation Entrepreneur Proud Team Work
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Forgiveness Grudge Let Go Life One Liner
When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
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Business Inspirational Problem Struggle Understand
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
Only the heart senses beauty.
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Beautiful Heart One Liner Positive Sense
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
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
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue
I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
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Book Management Reading Time

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