One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Success and failure come and go, but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters.
- The world is a Treasure Map
- Your possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
- Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
- The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we’ll turn out all right.
- Normal is never one of a kind.
- Run wild and free like a waterfall
- To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
- You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
- Your margin is my opportunity.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Create a space for the person you want to become, not the person you were.
- You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
- All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Life itself is simple.it’s just not easy.