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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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Elon Musk
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 28
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Pretoria
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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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As a child I would just question things.
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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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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
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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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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.
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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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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
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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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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.
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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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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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