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Quotes by Entrepreneur

"Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle."

"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."

"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."

"Your time is precious, use it wisely."

"I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax."

"There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it."

"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."

"Keep your dreams bigger than your fears."

"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."

"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."

"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to it."

"When you change your mind, you change your life."

"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."

"As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The antidote to overwhelm is action."

"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."

"You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen."

"Your life is your responsibility. No one else's."

"Stop waiting for permission. No one is going to give it to you."

"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."

"Quit worrying about what others think. They aren't."

"Everything is figureoutable."

"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."

"We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin."

"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."

"You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both."

"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."

"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."

"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."

"I think we should explore the possibility of life on Mars, and make humanity a multi-planetary species."

"Your potential is limitless when you decide to own it."

"Follow your passion, not the money. The money will follow you."

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

"Your body hears everything your mind says."

"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."

"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."

"Great things take time. Keep going."

"If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste."

"Small things done consistently in strategic places create major impact."

"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."

"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."

"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."

"If you're not progressing, you're falling behind."
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