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Elon Musk
South African
Businessman
Born:
Jun 28
,
1971
Better
Car
People
Think
Will
You
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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
Elon Musk
Independent
Strongly
Democratic
Moderate
Republican
Registered
Personally
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Elon Musk
Death
Great
History
Great Deal
High
Rate
Days
Deal
Experimentation
Aviation
Early
Early Days
If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.
Elon Musk
Service
Buy
Needs
You
Yourself
Better
Big
Shoes
Unless
Marketplace
Bit
Entering
Entrenched
Consumer
Put
Because
Always
Big Difference
Existing
Trusted
Brand
Than
Going
Difference
Where
Anything
Against
Little
Little Bit
Then
Much
Product
Your
Large
Competitors
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Elon Musk
Life
Problems
Think
Earth
Must
Solving
About
Something
More
Inspiring
Got
Than
Just
Even
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
Elon Musk
Good
Pilot
Space
Fly
Own
Definitely
Kids
Responsibilities
Would
Would-Be
My Own
Risky
Absolutely
Idea
Soon
Like
Got
Test
Test Pilot
Just
Want
Sensible
Personally
Used
Cool
Now
Thing
Things
Good Idea
The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon Musk
Art
Great
You
Technology
Cause
Amazing
Car
Great Art
Our
Bit
Carried
Distracted
Kind
Delayed
Advance
Vehicles
Mission
Obviously
Well
Got
Model
Get
Did
Want
Which
Little
Little Bit
Us
Electric
Away
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
Elon Musk
Work
You
Technology
Business
Work Hard
New Things
Think
Other
Valley
Way
Destroyed
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Some
High-Tech
Developing
New
Industry
Doing
Very
Quickly
Improve
Get
Move
Either
Product
Your
Used
Hard
Company
Things
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.
Elon Musk
You
Light
Space
Example
Experiment
Case
Something
Attempt
Never
Had
Light Bulb
Failed
Make
Greater
Does
Bulb
Goal
Often
Space Shuttle
Used
Even
Why
Shuttle
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon Musk
Progress
Path
Half
Francisco
Run
Would
Would-Be
Above
High-Speed
Could
Shanghai
Had
California
Well
Least
Line
Done
Just
San
San Francisco
China
Notch
Straight
Milk
Rail
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
Competitor
See
Born
Brought
New
California
Because
Came
New Technologies
Viable
Africa
Where
Fruition
Really
Technologies
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Elon Musk
Mind
Big
Design
Jet
Took
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Percent
Years
Vertical
Efficiency
Improve
Improvement
Just
Lame
Planes
Really
Billion
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
Elon Musk
Myself
People
Money
Own
Believe
Think
Other
Something
My Own
Invest
Always
Going
Just
Ask
Create
Companies
Using
Whole
Prepared
Right
Thing
What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
Elon Musk
People
World
Three
Sun
System
Degrees
Entire
Entirely
Almost
Ecosystem
Know
Most
Powers
Ball
Frozen
Ice
Realize
Whole
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
Elon Musk
Buy
Sports
People
Car
Will
Pay
Civic
Nobody
Wants
Electric
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
Elon Musk
Great
Great Things
Space
Drive
Down
Cost
Transportation
Things
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
Elon Musk
Life
Events
Water
Plants
Animals
Half
Important
Earth
About
Only
Advent
Saga
Genuinely
Been
Mammals
Movement
Land
Plants And Animals
Differentiation
Dozen
Consciousness
We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.
Elon Musk
You
Telling
Pretty
Disabled
Tesla
Person
Owners
Want
Wanted
The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
Elon Musk
Progress
Mars
Depends
Pace
Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
Elon Musk
Time
Intelligence
Digital
Will
Think
See
Merger
Over
Closer
Biological
On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world's first 'space cheese.' It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.
Elon Musk
World
Cheese
Space
First
Back
Secret
Monty
Monty Python
Tribute
Brought
Had
Part
Python
Orbit
Wheel
Flew
Flights
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
Elon Musk
You
Long
Think
Other
See
Factories
Long-Term
Term
Parts
Tesla
Establishing
Asia
Europe
In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Elon Musk
Future
Space
Civilization
Inspiring
Exciting
Where
Order
Us
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Elon Musk
Politics
You
Some
Voice
Make
Heard
Contribution
Order
Little
Your
Washington
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
Elon Musk
Law
Real Estate
Startups
Valley
Critical
Critical Mass
Evolved
Geared
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Structure
Support
Toward
Mass
Venture
Accepting
Real
Being
Estate
Capitalists
Engineers
Actually
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Elon Musk
Time
Business
Money
Competition
Franchise
Promote
Direct
Laws
Prevent
Invested
Open
Had
Put
Opening
Dealer
Were
Existing
Effort
Decades
Unfairly
Stores
Place
Manufacturer
There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.
Elon Musk
You
Nothing
Everything
Pretty
Bought
Like
Know
Yacht
Yachts
Got
Person
Want
Anything
Plane
Much
Nicest
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