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Quotes by Entrepreneur

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

"Your future self is created by your present actions."

"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."

"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."

"Great things take time. Keep going."

"I think life on Earth must be more than just solving problems. It must be about having a purpose."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is."

"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."

"In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate."

"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."

"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."

"You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet."

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

"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."

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

"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."

"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."

"Great companies are built on great products."

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

"The antidote to overwhelm is action."

"It is possible for a small group of people to change the world."

"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."

"Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars."

"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."

"I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life."

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

"When you take care of yourself, you take care of the world."

"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"Social Media = Business. Period."

"Perfectionism at its core isn't about having high standards. It's about fear."

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

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

"A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in."

"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."

"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."

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

"Fear is a GPS for where your soul most wants to go."

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

"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."

"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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