Elon Musk
Quotes from Elon Musk
"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most."
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"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact."
654
"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
655
"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."
656
"It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable."
657
"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
658
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
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"There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
660
"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."
661
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
662
"Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution."
663
"I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
664
"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working."
665
"People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
666
"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."
667
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold."
668
"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time."
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"Great companies are built on great products."
670
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
671
"You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse."
672
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
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"I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better."
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"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
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"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong."
678
"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
679
"Constantly think about how you could be doing things better."
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