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What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Elon Musk

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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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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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Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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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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