Elon Musk Quotes - Page 2

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• I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

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  Expectations

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• Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

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  Mean, Government, People

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• We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

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  Needs, World, Figures

  YouTube Channel "Forbes Life"/"Driving With Elon Musk", www.youtube.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

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  Negative, Feedback, Negative Feedback

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• You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

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  People, Passionate, Want

  "Elon Musk AskMen Interview". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

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  Inspirational, Want, Expecting

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• You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Miserable

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• 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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  Inspirational, Morning, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

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  Inspirational, Enlightenment, Strive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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  Morning, Thinking, Get Up

  "Innovations That Will Change Your Life: A Conversation With Elon Musk". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

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  Inspirational, Important, Trying

  "Tesla And SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Industrial Empire". "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. March 30, 2014.

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• Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

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  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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  Inspirational, Horse, People

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• Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Thinking

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2013.

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• Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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  Creativity, Broken, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

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  Giving Up, Mean, I Will Never Give Up

  "SpaceX: 'We have heard from launch control that there has been an anomaly'" by Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 02, 2008.

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• What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

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  Ice, Ecosystems, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

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  Inspirational, Different, Needs

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• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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  Inspirational, Eggs, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

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  Moon, Important, Earth

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• When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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  Inspirational, College, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

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  Heart, Thinking, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

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  Patents, Should

  "Elon Musk Makes A Great Argument For Why Tesla Doesn't Need Patents To Be Successful" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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  Creating, Sake, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

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  Thinking, Negative, Feedback

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