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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
340
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
112
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
89
"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
89
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
86
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
85
"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."
79
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
74
"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
72
"I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad"
65
"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
62
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
61
"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."
60
"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
56
"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."
48
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
45
"In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization."
45
"If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me."
45
"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."
44
"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
43
"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
43
"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
42
"You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
40
"Take risks now and do something bold. You won't regret it."
40
"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."
40
"Social Media = Business. Period."
38
"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."
37
"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."
36
"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."
35
"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."
35
"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."
35
"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."
34
"Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle."
34
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
33
"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
32
"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."
32
"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."
31
"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."
31
"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
30
"When you fully commit, the universe bends to meet you halfway."
30
"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
29
"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
29
"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
29
"Success is about being brave enough to show up, even when you don't have all the answers."
29
"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
29
"There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it."
28
"We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin."
28
"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
28
"In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate."
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