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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
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"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
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"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
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"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
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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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"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
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"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
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"I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad"
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"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
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"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
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"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
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"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
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"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
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"Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it."
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"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
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"If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me."
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"What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone."
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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."
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"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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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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"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
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"We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy."
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"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
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"You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
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"Success is about being brave enough to show up, even when you don't have all the answers."
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"My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent."
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"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
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"Social Media = Business. Period."
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"Take risks now and do something bold. You won't regret it."
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"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
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"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."
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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."
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"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
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"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."
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"People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy."
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"The key to success is to start before you're ready."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
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"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."
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"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."
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"Dreams don't work unless you do."
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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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