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The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.
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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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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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You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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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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It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.
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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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My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.
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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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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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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.
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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
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