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Elon Musk: Just work like hell. “Just work like hell. You just have to put in 80 to 100-hour weeks every week. Those things improve the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks, and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.” Vator News, 2013
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Elon Musk: Just work like hell. “Just work like hell. You just have to put in 80 to 100-hour weeks every week. Those things improve the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks, and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.” Vator News, 2013

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🇺🇸 Progress is easier to lose than people think Elon: "People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better." Technology degrades if people stop fighting for progress. Ancient Egypt built the pyramids, Rome built aqueducts, then they forgot how. The same thing happens to companies, to countries, to civilizations. Progress is not automatic… it takes relentless effort. Source: TED 2017, “The Future We’re Building… and Boring,” April 28, 2017 / Writer: Val

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ELON: TOP TALENT WON’T WORK FOR CLUELESS BOSSES “If you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to say: what's the mission? What's the problem we're trying to solve… have a convincing argument for why it matters? Somebody's got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Are they enjoying the work… that's very important. They also feel like they will receive fair financial compensation. For the best people in the world… they'll want to know, is what they're doing going to matter? Will it make a difference… will people notice?” Source: Naruto, Elon Musk

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Elon Musk's advice to entrepreneurs: Life is too short not to do what you love. “Successful entrepreneurs probably come in all sizes and shapes and flavors. I'm not sure there's any one particular thing. I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important. Being obsessive-compulsive is a good thing in this context. Whatever area that you get into given that even if you're the best of the best, there's always a chance of failure. So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, life is too short. And also if you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. It's something that your mind is drawn to and if you don't like it you just really can't make it work.” Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture, Stanford, October 8, 2003

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ELON: LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO NOT FOCUS ON WHAT YOU LOVE “Successful entrepreneurs probably come in all sizes and shapes and flavors. I'm not sure there's any one particular thing. I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important. Being obsessive-compulsive is a good thing in this context. Whatever area that you get into given that even if you're the best of the best, there's always a chance of failure. So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, life is too short. And also if you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. It's something that your mind is drawn to. And if you don't like it you just really can't make it work.” Source: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture, Stanford, October 8, 2003

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Elon Musk: To recruit the best talent in the world, you have to show that their work will make a difference to the world. “I think in general, if you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state what's the mission, what's the problem we're trying to solve and just be clearly willing to pour a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it and have a convincing argument for why it matters. There's three major things in terms of motivation. First of all, somebody's got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Are they enjoying the work itself intrinsically? That's very important. And the right work environment can really make a big difference there. I think the ideal is that they also feel like that their rewards will receive fair financial compensation. That the financial rewards are good and fair. And then third, really, for the best people in the world, they'll want to know, is what they're doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?” XPRIZE Conversation with Peter Diamandis, April 22, 2021 Made and published via

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