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Quotes by Entrepreneur
"You want to be extra careful when making big decisions, but once you make a decision, stick with it."
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"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."
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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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"Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days."
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"Tesla is becoming a real car company."
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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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"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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"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 think the world will be a much better place if we put our energy towards important things."
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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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"Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self."
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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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"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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"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."
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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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"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
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"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
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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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"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
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"Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses."
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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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"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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"The risk of starting a business is more than worth the reward."
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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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"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure."
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"The reality is that very few people end up doing something that changes the world."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage."
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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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"America is the spirit of human exploration distilled."
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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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"I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool."
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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 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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"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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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
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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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