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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."

"Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion."

"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"

"Ingenuity requires creativity."

"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."

"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."

"Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation."

"We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different."

"The future belongs to those who innovate."

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"The greatest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."

"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

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