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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."
36
"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
24
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
23
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
23
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
17
"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
13
"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."
12
"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."
12
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
12
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
9
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
9
"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
8
"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."
8
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
7
"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
7
"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
7
"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
7
"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
7
"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."
7
"You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
6
"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
6
"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."
6
"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
6
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
5
"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."
5
"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."
5
"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
5
"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
5
"Success is about being brave enough to show up, even when you don't have all the answers."
5
"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
5
"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."
4
"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."
4
"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
4
"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
3
"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."
3
"When you change your mind, you change your life."
3
"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."
3
"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."
3
"Take risks now and do something bold. You won't regret it."
3
"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."
3
"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
3
"Your body hears everything your mind says."
2
"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
2
"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."
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