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576 Business magnate Quotes

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Area Capitalism Causes Diseases
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Disease Talk Hard About
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Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Anxious Author Legitimate Musician
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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Careful Diseases Pick Tough
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We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Food Grow Own Processing
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Afford Countries Rich Overpay
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Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Cheap Dependent Energy Granted
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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Always Energy Farming Trouble
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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Better Bright Day Future
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I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
Communicate Email Good Love
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I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Back Dial E-Mail Just
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Cost Down Drive Great
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Learning Lesson Patience Tough
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For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Appreciate Been Darkest Deeply
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Bet Car Cheap Ford
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Admission Better Buy Computer
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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

Actually Car Electric Fully
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Business Business People Engineers People
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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

Able Between Carry Earth
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Dollars Done Half Land
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Actually Building Cost First
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
Actually Any Books Management
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

About Better Constantly Could
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

About Advice Best Better
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
BMW Bringing Car Cool
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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

About Consumption Energy Helping
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Advance Car Companies Customers
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

Asia Establishing Europe Factories
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I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Company Good Good Idea Idea
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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.

Anything Around Could Dome
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Between Differences Disneyland Five
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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Civilization Exciting Future Inspiring
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We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Atmosphere Before Carbon Carbon Dioxide
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Better Coming Enjoy Forward
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

About Account Am Both
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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

About Earth Even Got
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Active Car Extension Natural
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Contribution Heard Little Make
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

About Anything Built Business
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Accessible Almost Anyone Difference
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Able Cannot Cures Current
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Collective Enlightenment Greater Makes
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Big Billion Design Efficiency
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Die Impact Just Like
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Good Good Heart Heart I Think
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Afraid Give Go Good
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Duty Every Every Opportunity Implies
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