Elon Musk: 15 citations follower of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci

Elon Musk (Elon Musk) - engineer-inventor, programmer, businessman, investor and main romantic of our time. In this article you will find the bright sayings mask, helps to better understand why it is called the heir to both Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

The most courageous entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, the founder of SpaceX, co-founder of PayPal, the head of Tesla Motors and SolarCity, «the savior of humanity" - all this about Elon Musk. All those who worked closely with him say that their lives are divided "before" and "after" Ilona. Yes, it is over-demanding, not only to others, he is rough, hard-nosed, closed, do not recognize authorities, but he also likes to play computer games, read fiction and dream of flying to the Mars.

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The prospect of lying on the beach most of his life sounds to me like a nightmare, as the worst thing that can happen. Probably, I would have gone mad and started taking hard drugs. I would have died of melancholy. I love it when everything revolves.

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I would not say that the least likely to feel fear. In fact, I would like to reduce the presence of this emotion in my life, because it distracts and exhausts the nervous system.

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Somewhere between twelve and thirteen I had an existential crisis, I tried to figure out whether it makes sense in your life, why we are here, and all that jazz. I came to the conclusion that the best thing you can do - is to improve the scope and scale of consciousness and achieve greater insight, which in its turn, will allow us to ask more and better questions, since it is obvious: the universe - it is the answer, the main thing - to ask the right question. All the matter in questions.

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It seems that these days, many major newspapers are trying to answer one question: what is the worst thing happened today in the world?

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I think that people today are somehow too carried away with it all sorts of internet, finance and law. This is one reason why there is little innovation.

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Money I do not care. The whole system of monetary circulation - is a series of interconnected heterogeneous databases.

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Sooner or later we will have to extend the life, or beyond that blue and green ball, or become extinct.

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I always try to think of the future events, trying to predict them. I foresee a chain of events, then analyze the errors and differences between the prediction and the actual course of things and try to minimize these errors. That's how I see it. And I think in terms of probabilities of streams. There is a certain set of outcomes, the probability of these outcomes, and I want to be a winner in any case. So, while not always go as you plan, if everything is correct count, over time, be sure to prodvineshsya forward.

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I think that the children and I spend enough time. But there is still a problem. I need to find a girlfriend. Here it should be cut out much more while. Maybe even five to ten hours... how much time a woman needs a week? Maybe ten o'clock? What is generally at least? I dont know.

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Generally I do not read a single book on time management.

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Many feed the extreme bias against risk. Everyone is trying to optimize the skill to cover his own ass.

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I think more and more politicians for electric vehicles than against. Among them, there are still enemies, and, in my opinion, the reasons for this vary from person to person, but in some cases people just do not believe in change - they believe that oil will last forever.

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That we have an interesting and inspiring future in it, we have to become civilization, develop space.

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I confidently predict that within 20 years the majority of new cars will be fully electric, and soon it will happen even for 10 years rather than 20.

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Where does the innovative thinking? I think this attitude. We must decide whether we will try to do it differently.

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Even more quotations from public statements, letters and interviews mask can be found in the book "Elon Musk: 'Never give up'."

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