Elon Musk: I've actually not read any books on time management.

“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.”

—Charlie Munger

“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Jason Fried

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.”

—Barack Obama

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

—Warren Buffett

“Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction.”

—Bernie Sanders

“Truth is a process not a final destination. The former requires humility and curiosity. The latter dogmatic certainty. There's always more nuance and wisdom to discover, through empathy and reason.”

—Lex Fridman

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

—Warren Buffett

“We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don’t, we’re not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that’s okay.”

—Jeff Bezos

“I don't believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that 'it's all about the process,' I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.”

—Elon Musk

“It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”

—Warren Buffett

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

—Warren Buffett

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”

—Frank Herbert

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