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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

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

"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs."

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."


"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."


"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."


"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."


"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."


"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."


"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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