Elon Musk says

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

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“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

“...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”

—Warren Buffett

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”

“It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

“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.”

“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom”

—Warren Buffett

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

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

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

—Barack Obama

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

—Warren Buffett

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

—Warren Buffett

“I've said many times: prototypes are easy, production is hard.”

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

“No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated”