Elon Musk Quotes & Sayings | Minimalist Quotes

As a child I would just question things.
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Children Inspirational Knowledge Learning
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.
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Communication Internet Possible
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 we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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Cost Drive Greatness Space Transport
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Broken Business Failure Need Product
Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
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Framework Fundamental Physics Reason Thinking Truth
A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.
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Business Company Group Motivational Organization People Product Service
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
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Choose Extraordinary Inspirational Ordinary People Possible
Best place to view is from the beach. Excitement guaranteed!
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Beach Excitement Guarantee Place Travel View
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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Establishment Inspirational Occurance Possible Probable Step
Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
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Employee Extreme Important Individual Player Strategy Talent Win
There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Optimism Risk Tremendous Try
When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.
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Air Assured Civilization Common Future Space Travel
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 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
Never trust cynics, as they excuse their own bad deeds by telling themselves everyone does it.
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Cynic Deed Excuse Trust
Elevator music is underrated.
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Elevator Music One Liner Underrated
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 always like going South; somehow, it feels like going downhill.
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Feeling Going Travel
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
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
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
Give people their freedom back!
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Freedom One Liner People
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
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
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality

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