I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Elon Musk
Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Musk built the electronic-payments foundation with PayPal, then commercially established the electric-vehicle industry with Tesla and opened the era of private space transportation with SpaceX. Armed with 'first-principles thinking,' he simultaneously disrupts multiple giant industries — electric vehicles, rockets, solar energy, brain-computer interfaces — and is reshaping the 21st-century industrial map with his vision of Mars colonization.
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Elon Musk's Other Quotes
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
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