Elon Musk Quotes
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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
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Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
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I think South Africa is a great country.
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The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
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My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
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I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.