Elon Musk Quotes
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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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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
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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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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
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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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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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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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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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The probability of death is quite high on the first human mission to Mars.
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
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I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.