“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
“I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.”
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
“I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
“I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”
“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
“I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.”
“If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.”
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”
“It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you’re not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it’s actually space that’s moving.”
“Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.”
“People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”
“People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”
“The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.”
“We cannot understand the true nature of the Universe, unless we question deeply. I want to know what is real, even if the answer is total obliteration of my consciousness.”
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80- to 100-hour weee ks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40-hour workweeks and you’re putting in 100-hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”
“You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?’”
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