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MUSK LISTEN
Some of Elon Musk’s most memorable quotes to date
We could definitely make a flying car, but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.
We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China — if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.
Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.
I would like to die on Mars. But not during a fatal impact.
I always invest my money in the companies I create. I don’t believe in using just other people’s money. I don’t think that’s fair. I will not ask other people to invest in something if I am not prepared to do it myself.
I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fried my nervous system.
My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it’s important if someone has a good heart. When Henry Ford made cheap and reliable cars, people said, “Nah, what about a horse?” It was a huge bet that he made and it worked.
Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people.
It’s a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.
I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.
You Gotta Be Kidding Me!
Yankel says to Moishe: “Oy, I wish I was a billionaire, just like my father...”
Moishe replies incredulously, “Your father was a billionaire?!”
Twitter Trivia
1. How much did Elon Musk pay to buy Twitter (the whole company, that is)? a. $3 billion b. $14 billion c. $44 billion d. $100 billion
2. What is the official name of the bird that is the Twitter logo? a. Larry T Bird b. Blue Bird c. Twitter Bird d. Tweet Twit
3. How did Twitter get created? a. Jack Dorsey sold an IT company to Google for $500 million and invested $300 million in this new startup called Twitter. b. A podcasting company was going under because iTunes came along and took up their market share, so they had a brainstorming session and one of the engineers (Jack
Dorsey) came up with the idea of allowing people to send a short text message to a central number, where it could be disseminated to a large group of people, thus allowing people to share their status. c. Jack Dorsey would send out text messages to all of his friends about different things (probably nose rings and yuppy beards), and he realized that it would be easier if he could just write something on his phone and all of his friends could see it.
He therefore came up with the app and sold it to Google, which developed it. d. Jack Dorsey accidentally sent a text message to all of his contacts saying, “I’m going to Hamilton tonight.” When he received 75 responses asking how it was, he realized that it is really cool to be able to broadcast messages in a text message style to a lot of people at once. Based on that, he created Twitter.
4. Who famously said the following: “I’m not a Twitterer… I’m not a Facebooker. I am a ... nothin’ ... I’m old school”? a. George Bush b. Michael Jordan c. Jordan Peterson d. Tony Robbins
5. In 2006, Jack Dorsey sent out the first ever tweet. What did it say? a. “just setting up my twttr” b. “One small tweet for me, one great leap for social media” c. “covfefe” d. “Forward this message for a chance to win $1 million”
6. How many tweets are sent on average per day? a. 15 million b. 75 million c. 500 million d. 2 billion e. 7 billion
7. Approximately how many
Twitter followers did Donald
Trump have before he was permanently blocked from the platform on January 21, 2021? a. 5 million b. 12 million c. 20 million d. 80 million
Answers: 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. D
Wisdom key: 5-6 correct: u r a twtr exprt 3-4 correct: #mediocrity
0-2 correct: You don’t pay much attention to Twitter. Maybe you are really smart. On the other hand, one of the smartest people in the world today just paid $44 billion for the company, so maybe you are not really so smart.
