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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans."
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"Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses."
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"Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way."
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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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"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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"For a case study in personal branding. Google "Jarod Kintz. He's kind of a big deal."
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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 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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"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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"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."
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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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"Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."
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"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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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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"We need to do things that are important and useful, as opposed to things that are easy and meaningless."
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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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"Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course."
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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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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"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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"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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"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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"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 only way to make a great product is to make a product that people want."
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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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"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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"A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear."
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"When people stop dying, they want to create wealth."
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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
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"The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it."
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"I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry."
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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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"Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self."
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"Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days."
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"Pass on it if you're not passionate, for convictions create clear choices."
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"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
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"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."
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"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
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"I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment."
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"For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze."
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"I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?"
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