"There's nothing - I've bought everything I..." - Quote by Elon Musk
There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.
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“Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.”
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
“When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.”
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“Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.”
“We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.”
“The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.”
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“Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.”
“It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.”
“Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.”