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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Great things take time. Keep going."
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"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"Success happens when you refuse to give up."
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"I think life on Earth must be more than just solving problems. It must be about having a purpose."
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"There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions."
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"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
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"Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius."
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"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
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"Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars."
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"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."
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"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their success rate, but you have to take risks."
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"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."
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"If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive."
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"Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation."
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."
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"If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth."
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"The reality is that very few people end up doing something that changes the world."
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"The greatest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
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"I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company."
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"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage."
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"I don't care about being rich. I care about making an impact."
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"I think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
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"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."
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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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"The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not."
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"If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"You want to be extra careful when making big decisions, but once you make a decision, stick with it."
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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
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"It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere."
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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
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"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"
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"I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google."
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"The fundamental good of society is not the state, it's not the politicians, it's the people."
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