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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?"
"The NASA managers and astronauts alike were in the grip of what they would later recognize as “‘Go’ Fever”—the desperate drive to push on toward a launch..."
“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 of the past few decades has been the best it will ever be in our lifetime. Instead of cheap and better and faster, we’re rapidly transitioning into a world that’s pricier and worse and slower. Because the world—our world—is breaking apart."
"There are three things that create a reserve currency: a strong economy, a strong military, and an open capital account. The United States has all three, but its relative position is declining, while China's is rising."
"When you lift up women, you lift up humanity."
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"When you think you're done, you're only at 40% of what your body is capable of doing. That's just the limit we put on ourselves."
"The key, though, is being aware of how you’re feeling and how you need to be feeling. It all starts with awareness."
"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."
"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills."
"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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"The Blitz was not just a battle of bombs and buildings; it was a battle of wills, a test of endurance, a clash of values."
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
"Fanatic discipline keeps 10X enterprises on track, empirical creativity keeps them vibrant, productive paranoia keeps them alive, and Level 5 ambition provides inspired motivation."
"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."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
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"War brings out the worst and the best in human nature."
"Excellent companies believe in simplicity. They keep their strategies and operations as straightforward as possible."
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Maye Musk raised her three children to be independent, hard-working, and to do good things.
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"The most important thing is not to know everything, but to have the courage to test everything."
"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology."
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"Queen Elizabeth II has become grandmother to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The longest-serving monarch in history has devoted herself to her family, her people, and the wider family of nations.”