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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."
"Run after your obsessions with everything you have. Just be sure to take notes along the way."
"In the age of AI, the most valuable commodity will be data, and those who control it will hold enormous power."
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"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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"AI has the potential to fundamentally alter what it means to be human, but we need to ensure that we retain control over our own destiny."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Innovation requires a long-term perspective and a willingness to invest in research and development, even when the benefits may not be immediate."
"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."
"Growth is a universal phenomenon, but its patterns are anything but uniform."
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"Excellent companies believe in simplicity. They keep their strategies and operations as straightforward as possible."
"What's the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
"The first principle of ultralearning is to deeply understand the material, not just to pass a test or complete an assignment."
"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."
"Different types of thinking provide strengths in one area and deficits in another."
"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."
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing."