When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
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.
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
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.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
Don't be afraid of new arenas.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.
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.
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