For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.
I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures
Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.
I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
I try not to invent things that people don't need.
I Own the guy guarding me
So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise
The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.
If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
Turnarounds seldom turn.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.
I've had tendinitis since college.
You don't have to be a genius to invest well
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.
Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.
You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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.
Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, … Driven From Within.
Heart is what separates the good from the great.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
The best come from the worst
I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
