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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
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"Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry."
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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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"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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"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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"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 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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"The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished."
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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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"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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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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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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"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."
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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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"It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car."
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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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"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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"The only way to make a great product is to make a product that people want."
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"Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure."
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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you're working with, and how you're helping them."
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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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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
"Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it."
"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
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