Kimbal Musk Quotes
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
Quotes to Explore
-
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
-
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
-
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
-
America is another name for opportunity.
-
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
-
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
-
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
-
If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
-
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
-
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
-
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
-
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
-
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
-
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
-
The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.
-
I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.
-
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
-
I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
