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Elon Musk
South African
Businessman
Born:
Jun 28
,
1971
Better
Car
People
Think
Will
You
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Elon Musk
Life
Life Is Too Short
Too
Long-Term
Short
Grudges
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. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk
Best
You
Communication
Yourself
Better
Feedback
Important
Advice
Single
Think
Thinking
Constantly
About
Could
Piece
Loop
How
Doing
Questioning
Very
Done
Where
Things
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Elon Musk
You
Change
People
Some People
Embrace
Some
Like
Disaster
Alternative
Need
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.
Elon Musk
Future
Day
Morning
You
Better
Think
Otherwise
Up
Get
Going
Bright
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.
Elon Musk
You
Business
Cake
Proportion
Like
Baking
Trying
Create
Ingredients
Company
Right
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Elon Musk
Failure
You
Try
Important
Enough
Outcome
Something
Probable
Should
Even
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Elon Musk
You
Business
Long
Control
OK
Eggs
Happens
Your
Basket
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Elon Musk
Environmental
History
Dangerous
Before
Experiment
Running
See
Atmosphere
Catastrophe
Most
How
How Much
Handle
Which
Much
Now
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Right
There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Elon Musk
Love
Future
Morning
You
Live
Stars
Incredibly
Out
Find
About
Point
Inspires
Does
Up
Get
Being
Want
Depressing
Reasons
Include
Species
Why
Among
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Elon Musk
People
Will
Else
Pretty
About
Pretty Much Anything
Pursue
Make
Passionate
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Happier
Them
Much
Should
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon Musk
Brainy
Collective
Sense
Strive
Only
Greater
Makes
The Only Thing
Really
Thing
Enlightenment
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.
Elon Musk
Work
Morning
People
Better
Important
Enjoy
Know
Look
Coming
Goal
Working
Forward
Why
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.
Elon Musk
Business
People
Car
Made
Reliable
Bet
Horse
Cheap
He
Wrong
Ford
Said
Huge
Worked
Henry
Henry Ford
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Elon Musk
Good
Relationship
Heart
Good Heart
Matters
Think
Someone
Whether
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Elon Musk
Work
Needs
Broken
Design
Any
Product
Manual
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Elon Musk
Change
World
College
Change The World
Teen
Would
Involved
Wanted
Things
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.
Elon Musk
Video Games
Buy
Me
World
Money
Better
Nothing
Engineering
Saving
Software
Kid
Embarrassing
Admission
Could
Computer
Like
Make
Got
Wanted
Video
Games
Play
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
Failure
You
Enough
Silly
Failing
NASA
Option
Notion
Things
Here
I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'
Elon Musk
Future
You
Technology
Change
World
Change The World
Possible
Wow
See
New
Like
How
Affect
Did
New Technology
Wondrous
Where
Happen
Interested
Even
Things
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk
Best
You
Yourself
Better
Advice
Single
Think
Constantly
About
Could
Piece
How
Doing
Questioning
Things
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Elon Musk
Future
Humanity
Would
Would-Be
Mars
Lifetime
Disappointed
Very
Land
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
Elon Musk
Life
Science
Solar
Become
Solar System
System
Possible
Mars
Only
Where
Place
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
Elon Musk
Future
Light
Duty
Think
Maintain
Make
Sure
Consciousness
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.
Elon Musk
Work
You
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Water
Control
Those
Out
Guy
He
Like
Know
Sure
Demon
Yeah
Artificial
Where
Stories
Work Out
Holy
I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
Elon Musk
Myself
Engineer
Kid
Since
Doing
Been
Describe
Basically
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
Elon Musk
Life
Good
History
You
Woman
Age
People
Old
Young
Teeth
Would
Would-Be
Some
Horrible
Rather
Good Student
Student
Part
Knew
Days
Particularly
Likely
Were
Very
Disease
Die
Young Age
Different
Anyone
Old Days
Little
Sucked
Now
Awful
Thinks
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