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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Elon Musk

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
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I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
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There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
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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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Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold
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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 would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
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I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'
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