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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"For a case study in personal branding. Google "Jarod Kintz. He's kind of a big deal."
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"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
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"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
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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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"A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear."
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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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"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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"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 key to making things happen is focus."
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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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"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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"We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best."
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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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"Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days."
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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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"A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time."
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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 think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
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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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"Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self."
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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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"The only way to make a great product is to make a product that people want."
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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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"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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"Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network but let's hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day."
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"You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress."
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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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"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
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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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"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
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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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"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."
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"Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club."
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"Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion."
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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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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
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"Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again."
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"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."
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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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"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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"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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"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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