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 :
- Purists don’t take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.
- He who is afraid to lose, is not ready to win
- Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
- Do something in your life which will make millions of people attend your funeral. Have a worthy life.
- High expectations are the key to everything.
- Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- Forget perfect. Be quick. Quickness kills.
- Followers accept answers. Leaders ask questions.
- Impatience destroys at least 98% of hard work’s potential.
- Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
- If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.
- The risks are important to keep in mind, but they shouldn’t necessarily stop you from pushing ahead with your idea.
- Strategy is about shaping the future.
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- The only quality to be successful and content is Mindfulness.
- An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.
- I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
- Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.