Elon Musk Quotes - Page 4

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• I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Thinking, Earth

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

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• Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Principles, Fundamentals

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• I've actually not read any books on time management.

  Elon Musk

  Book, Time Management, Management

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Two, Humanity, Events

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

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• I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Mean, Trying

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• I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Trying, Email

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

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• If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, People, Age

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

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• If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

  Elon Musk

  Tasks, Want, Might

  "Elon Musk And Richard Branson Give Their Best Advice To Entrepreneurs" by Max Nisen and Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. August 08, 2013.

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• I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Needs, Existential

  "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2014.

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• The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

  Elon Musk

  Ocean, Mars, Rockets

  «Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will» by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Distance, Years

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

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• And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

  Elon Musk

  Morning, Things In Life, Needs

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• If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

  Elon Musk

  Land, Humanity, Would Be

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

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• We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

  Elon Musk

  Sky, Fusion, Energy

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• I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Facts, Emotion

  Interview with Jim Meigs, Joe Pappalardo, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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• The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cfo, Engineering

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

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• America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, America, Spirit

  "Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

  Elon Musk

  Hard Work, People, Giving

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Order, Enlightenment

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• People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

  Elon Musk

  Mistake, Technology, People

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Hate, Writing, Use

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

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Believe, Thinking, People

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

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• There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

  Elon Musk

  Animal, Important Events, Years

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

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• Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Perspective, Humanity

  "25 quotes that take you inside Elon Musk's brilliant, eccentric mind" by Steven Benna, www.businessinsider.com. September 23, 2015.

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