"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
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"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial."
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"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
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"Great companies are built on great products."
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"And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning."
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"That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
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"I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure."
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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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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."
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"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
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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 thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life's pretty good. It really is."
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"Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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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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"We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired."
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"Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas."
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