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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"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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"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."
6
"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
5
"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
5
"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
5
"People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool'."
5
"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
5
"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."
5
"We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second."
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"Success happens when you refuse to give up."
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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."
4
"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their success rate, but you have to take risks."
4
"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."
4
"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."
4
"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."
4
"If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive."
4
"Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars."
4
"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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"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."
4
"Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation."
4
"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
3
"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."
3
"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
3
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
3
"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."
3
"I don't care about being rich. I care about making an impact."
2
"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."
2
"I think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
2
"The reality is that very few people end up doing something that changes the world."
2
"When people stop dying, they want to create wealth."
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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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"The key to making things happen is focus."
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"You want to be extra careful when making big decisions, but once you make a decision, stick with it."
2
"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."
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"America is the spirit of human exploration distilled."
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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."
2
"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
2
"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?'"
2
"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."
2
"SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people."
2
"I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool."
2
"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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