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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
I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people. Elon Musk
Travel People Space Think Mark Dream More Almost Disappointed Feel Lot Than American Died Human Space Travel Little American People Exploration
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. Elon Musk
Me Physics Engineer Father Economics Engineering Background Environment Sort Around Were Lots Up Grew Things
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. Elon Musk
Future States About Least Optimistic Century Reasonably United United States
We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy. Elon Musk
You People Unhappy Car Flying Definitely Super Could Part Safe Make Because How Very Quiet Going Hard Hard Part
If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations. Elon Musk
You Technology Strange Our Way Bad Something Could Bad Way Look Dead Lot Current Happen Mean Whole Level
So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design. Elon Musk
Space Design About Hours Make Expected Expecting Cell Same Pack Original Originally Now Level
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold. Elon Musk
Business Threshold Pain Everyone Say High Number Starting
I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake. Elon Musk
Me Mistake Better Will Made Somebody Thinking Twitter Assumption Attacking Attempt Open Mistaken Because Season
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice. Ephraim Mirvis
Silence Cowardice Circumstances Signify Some Oblivion Noble Self-Control Also Suppression While
Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins. Ephraim Mirvis
Peace Experience Circumstances He He Or She Feel She Begins Regardless Cannot Moment Unique Jew
Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds. Ephraim Mirvis
Peace Example Odds Living Pursuit Unshakable Greatest Against Belief
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