"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"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."
"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
"I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems."
"I think most of the things we take for granted are just things we've become accustomed to, but they are really not that useful."
"I always have optimism, but I'm realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX... It's just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway."
"It is possible for a person to work too hard, to dedicate himself too much to a task."
"I think the best way to predict the future is to make it."
"Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve."
"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
"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."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Great companies are built on great products."
"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
"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."
"My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
"You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse."
"Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not, or you're gonna get fixated on a bad solution."
"It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable."
"I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. We're doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. With first principles, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."
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