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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.
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Optimism, pessimism, f**k that we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
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