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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin."
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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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"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."
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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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"The key to success is to start before you're ready."
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"The antidote to overwhelm is action."
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"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."
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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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"If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you've got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it."
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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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"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."
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"Stop waiting for permission. No one is going to give it to you."
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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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"Perfectionism at its core isn't about having high standards. It's about fear."
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"If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation."
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"If you're not progressing, you're falling behind."
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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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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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"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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"Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business."
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"Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution."
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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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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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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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"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."
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"I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do."
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"I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company."
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"I think we should explore the possibility of life on Mars, and make humanity a multi-planetary species."
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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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"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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"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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"Show up, work hard, and be kind. That's all there is to 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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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."
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"Fear is a GPS for where your soul most wants to go."
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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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"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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"I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am."
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"Socialism? We've had way too much of it already."
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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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"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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"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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"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
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