Elon Musk says

“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”

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“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

“Expectations are the enemy here — they limit the number of great landing spots, and make the idealized one impossibly hard. Relax your expectations, and hundreds of positive possibilities open up.”

“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

—Warren Buffett

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

—Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”

—Warren Buffett

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”

“One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”

“E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.”

“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.”

“Err on the side of do. The tendency to put off, push away, or otherwise delay is strong. No. Act and move on. And act again if you have to — most decisions are temporary, anyway.”

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

—Barack Obama

“They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”