There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass―covering.
There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass―covering.
Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.
- Companies can’t be sold, they can only be bought.
- There are no overnight success. It’s a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.
- If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.
- Quality is more important than quality. One home run is better than two doubles.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough
- You can only succeed through a steady persistent effort.
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
- Quality is more important than quality. One home run is better than two doubles.
- Success is doing what you were created by God to do and being faithful in that.
- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- The vision for Echo and Alexa was inspired by the Star Trek computer
- .If there is no risk, there is no reward.
- Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
- You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.
- If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.
- Sell before you start
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.