Elon Musk Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

  "How Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. March 9, 2013.

• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Sports, Team, Winning

• The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Heart, Thinking

• It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Mistake

  Wired Science Interview, 2007.

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