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“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

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Elon Musk

“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

—Peter Beck

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

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Elon Musk

“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.”

—Jason Fried

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

—Elon Musk

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

—Bill Gates

“Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication […] No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.”

—Elon Musk

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

—Barack Obama

“Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”

—Elon Musk

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—Elon Musk

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

—Elon Musk

“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”

—Elon Musk

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