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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Great companies are built on great products."
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"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."
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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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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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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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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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"We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin."
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species."
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"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."
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"The antidote to overwhelm is action."
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"Socialism? We've had way too much of it already."
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"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."
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"In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate."
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"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world."
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"Perfectionism at its core isn't about having high standards. It's about fear."
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"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
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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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"When you fully commit, the universe bends to meet you halfway."
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"Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."
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"Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine."
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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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"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
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"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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"The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you're networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative."
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"There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it."
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"The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!"
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"Stop waiting for permission. No one is going to give it to you."
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"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."
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"Fear is a GPS for where your soul most wants to go."
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"Everything is figureoutable."
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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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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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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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"Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?"
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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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"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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"I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever."
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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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"Focus on progress, not perfection, and you'll move forward."
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"Your time is precious, use it wisely."
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