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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.
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Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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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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I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling
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As a child I would just question things.
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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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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
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When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
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No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated
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