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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"No one is you, and that is your superpower."
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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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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 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."
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"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."
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"Discipline is remembering what you want."
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"You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other."
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"It is possible for a small group of people to change the world."
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"Socialism? We've had way too much of it already."
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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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"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."
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"When you take care of yourself, you take care of 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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"Small things done consistently in strategic places create major impact."
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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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"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."
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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 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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"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."
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"Fear is a GPS for where your soul most wants to go."
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"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."
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"Great companies are built on great products."
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"Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution."
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"Confidence is not a requirement for taking action. It's the result of taking action."
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"People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool'."
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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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"Your future self is created by your present actions."
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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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"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."
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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 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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"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."
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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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"Everything you dream of is on the other side of fear."
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"I don' believe in perfection. Perfection means that nothing changes."
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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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"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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"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."
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"The world needs that special gift that only you have."
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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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"You want to be a good person, but sometimes you need to have the courage to be ruthless."
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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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"We're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."
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"Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it."
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