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"To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
“My biggest problem was that I had succeeded, at least in the pursuit of building my company. Where I had failed was with the rest of my life.”
"Often it is the outsider, unburdened by the past, who becomes the pattern-breaking person behind a pattern-breaking idea."
"The world’s chip industry, as well as the assembly of all the electronic goods chips enable, depends more on the Taiwan Strait and the South China coast than on any other chunk of the world’s territory except Silicon Valley."
"With its high profits and bifurcated labor force, California modeled capitalist discipline for the nation."
"The metaverse will challenge our assumptions about what is real, what is valuable, and what is possible."
"The aim of this book is to use short stories to convince you that soft skills are more important than the technical side of money."
"The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over."
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"When it comes to creating and sustaining culture, what matters is not the content of any one message, but its tone."
"Measure what you value, and others will value what you measure."
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"Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned. Confidence is based on what is real and solid. Ego is fake. It is hollow."
"I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over."
"In business, as in life, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances is often the key to success."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt."
"To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained."
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"Tencent's founder, Pony Ma, has always been focused on the long-term, and he has consistently invested in new technologies and industries with an eye towards the future."
"Fanatic discipline keeps 10X enterprises on track, empirical creativity keeps them vibrant, productive paranoia keeps them alive, and Level 5 ambition provides inspired motivation."
"The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution."
"All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition."
"Excellent companies believe in simplicity. They keep their strategies and operations as straightforward as possible."
"Internationalizing your life and assets can provide a hedge against political instability, economic downturns, and other risks that are beyond your control."
"The relationship between democracy and capitalism has always been uneasy, yet it is the balance between the two that has driven progress."
"What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
"The most important thing is not to know everything, but to have the courage to test everything."
"Black Swans are large-scale, unpredictable, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology."
"Money is power, and when women have access to money, we can change the world."
"From an insurgent underdog in entertainment, a money pit, something of a joke, YouTube had become one of the most dominant, influential, untamed, and successful media businesses on the planet."
"Learn to identify and trumpet ONE thing you want people to know. And do it in ONE strong sentence. Or no one will ever remember it."
"Their secret sauce to building wealth? They actually invest; they don’t just talk about it! And they never stop investing."
"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing."