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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."
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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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"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
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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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"Focus on progress, not perfection, and you'll move forward."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Success happens when you refuse to give up."
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"I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."
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"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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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 believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
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"Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth."
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"The world needs that special gift that only you have."
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"Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle."
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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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"When you fully commit, the universe bends to meet you halfway."
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"I don't care about being rich. I care about making an impact."
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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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"The reality is that very few people end up doing something that changes the world."
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"We need to do things that are important and useful, as opposed to things that are easy and meaningless."
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"SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete."
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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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"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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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."
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"The key to making things happen is focus."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"America is the spirit of human exploration distilled."
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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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"Tesla is becoming a real car company."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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