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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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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 tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
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Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
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The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
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I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
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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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What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
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Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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