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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"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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"Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say."
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"Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing."
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"Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right."
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"Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove."
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"You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box."
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"A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order."
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"Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission."
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"I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee."
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"Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."
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"Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way."
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"Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit."
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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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"The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't."
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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'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'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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"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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"Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?"
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."
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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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"Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans."
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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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"The fundamental good of society is not the state, it's not the politicians, it's the people."
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"Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success."
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"If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations."
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"The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing."
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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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"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 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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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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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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"Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses."
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"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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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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"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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"The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror."
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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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"A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel."
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"So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design."
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"Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform."
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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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"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
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"Tesla is becoming a real car company."
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