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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"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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"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."
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"Take risks now and do something bold. You won't regret it."
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"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."
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"Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself."
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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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"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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"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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"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
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"Your time is precious, use it wisely."
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"You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen."
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"Stop waiting for permission. No one is going to give it to you."
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"Keep your dreams bigger than your fears."
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"Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all."
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"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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"It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today."
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"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."
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"Discipline is remembering what you want."
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"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."
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"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"Quit worrying about what others think. They aren't."
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"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."
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"Everything is figureoutable."
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"No one is you, and that is your superpower."
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"If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste."
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"I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view."
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"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."
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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get done."
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"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."
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"I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars."
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"The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced."
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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."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."
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"I'm convinced that the people who do the most to make the world a better place are those who are passionate about solving a big problem."
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"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."
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"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"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."
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"Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius."
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