Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
want might succeed
If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial.
want expecting expecting-things
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
inspirational want entrepreneurship
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
inspirational damage want
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
people want passionate
You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.
want planes persons
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.
car want rockets
I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.
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Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween (October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.
changing cycle energy moving
the Internet; changing the energy cycle from petroleum-based to solar-electric; and moving into space.
exactly govern industry
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
earliest expect full ground including late launch occur review software support third vehicle
We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.
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We have a lot of ways of finding the stage, and we really want to bring it back no matter what shape it's in.
billion design jet mind planes took vertical
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.