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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.

Elon Musk

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
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Business Entrepreneur Passionate People Want
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
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!
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Appreciation Entrepreneur Proud Team Work
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
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Inspirational Learning Lesson Patience Tough Virtue
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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Enough Entrepreneur Favour Important Inspirational
What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.
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Arena Profound Simplicity
There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Optimism Risk Tremendous Try
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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Alternative Change Disaster Embrace Inspirational People
You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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Innovation Invalid Patent
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
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Choose Extraordinary Inspirational Ordinary People Possible
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
Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.
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Aware Difference Existence Technology World
My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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Bridge Car Opinion
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
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Brand Impression Perception Product Reality Time
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
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Death Eat Entrepreneur Glass
We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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Destroy Figure Inspirational Love Positive World
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
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Die Humour ImpAction Mars
My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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Bridge Car Opinion
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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Complicated Done Hire Job Mistake Number People
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
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
Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
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Human Need Planet Species
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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Gas Mars Planet Science Time

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