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 :
- To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions What did I do right? and What would I do differently?
- Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
- An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.
- We need to embrace change in order to sell change.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- Entrepreneur, don’t just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- Great companies are built on great products.
- If you cant sell it to yourself, you cant sell it to someone else.
- A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.
- If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
- Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.
- Entrepreneur, Vincent Van Gogh had no accredited training in art but yet his distinction is generational.
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.
- True ambition is the desire to work harder for yourself than somebody else
- I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.