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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
Actor
Aerospace Engineer
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Investor
Programmer
Pretoria
South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk
Elon R. Musk
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You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.
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I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
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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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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
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I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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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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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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My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
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