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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Elon Musk

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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Business Company Entrepreneur Investment Money Myself People
That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.
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Entrepreneur Kill Lesson Vacation
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
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
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Business Constant Criticism Gold Seek Value
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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Engineer Existence Magic World
Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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Goodness Heart Personality Talent
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
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
The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning.
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Appreciation Improvement Meaning Understand Universe World Worry
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
Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up
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Manipulation Mess Moral Weapon
When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.
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Business Inspirational Problem Struggle Understand
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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Appreciation Entrepreneur Proud Team Work
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
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Expensive Laptop Money Phone Product Technology
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
For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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Business Entrepreneur Give Up Motivational
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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Disappointment Hope Human Lifetime Mars
Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.
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Enough Intelligence Physics Run
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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Business Different Entrepreneur Inspirational Need
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Die Humour ImpAction Mars
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
For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.
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Business Entrepreneur Future Human Money Problem Solve

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