马斯克的名言 热门38句

1. inc. journalist: (when elon was starting zip2 he had) $2000, no friends, barely enough money for an apartment. he was showering at the gym, because he didn^v^t have a shower where he was living.

2. (on paypal): developing the software and have it ready for the general public reasonably coincide with us being able to conclude those deals to interface with the outside vendors, and all that took about a year. i think one thing important is try not to serialize dependencies, put as many elements in parallel as possible, a lot of things have a gestation period, it^v^s very hard to accelerate that gestation period, if you can have all those things gestating in parallel, then that is one way to substantially accelerate your timeline. i think people tend to serialize things too much.

3. recalling his two student years in canada, musk notes, “in the first two years at university, you learn a lot about a great many things. one particular thing that i learned at queen’s – both from faculty and students – was how to work collaboratively with smart people and make use of the socratic method to achieve commonality of purpose.”

4. “i think we should try to make things happen for the right reason. we shouldn’t give in to the politics,” he said. “if we give in to that, we’ll get the political system we deserve.”

5. relative to others with a similar net worth, i don^v^t spend much money on personal matters. i own no homes (not even my residence at this point), yachts or expensive artwork. my clothes are mostly jeans and t-shirts and i almost never take vacations, apart from kid related travel.

6. the difference between musk and everyone else is that passion and ambition. when tesla nearly went bankrupt, he fired its ceo, took over the role himself and risked his personal fortune, pouring $75 million into the company. as production delays have eaten into tesla’s cash, some analysts have doubted the company’s viability. but musk renegotiated the terms of a government loan, sold shares in the company and seems to have fixed its production delays. “the factory is state of the art,” says elaine kwei, an auto industry analyst with jefferies & company, “and the delays were little things from other suppliers, like door handles. the car is awesome and demand doesn’t seem to be an issue; if they can sell 13,000 cars next year, they’ll break even. tesla has the potential to dominate the ev category, similar to the toyota prius’ dominance of the hybrid electric segment.”

7. “right now we’re working six days a week. some people are working seven days a week – i do – but for a lot of people, working seven days a week is not sustainable. the factory is operational seven days a week but most people we only ask to work six days a week right now and, obviously, we want to get that to a more reasonable number. i think people can sustain a 50-hour work week. i think that’s a good work week. if you’re joining tesla, you’re joining a company to work hard. we’re not trying to sell you a bill of goods. if you can go work for another company and then maybe you can work a 40-hour work week. but if you work for tesla, the minimum is really a 50-hour week and there are times when it’ll be 60- to 80-hour weeks. if somebody is hourly, they receive time-and-a-half, but if somebody is salary, then we do cash and stock bonuses for going above and beyond the call of duty. so we try to make it fair compensation, but the general understanding is that if you’re at tesla, you’re choosing to be at the equivalent of special forces. there’s the regular army, and that’s fine, but if you are working at tesla, you’re choosing to step up your game. and that has pluses and minuses. it’s cool to be special forces, but it also means you’re working your ass off. it’s not for everyone.”

8. on hiring, musk looks for two things – a positive attitude and being easy to work with. people must like working with the applicant. they have a no a-hole policy at musk’s companies.

9. maye musk: he has a photographic memory, so he could remember everything.

10. elon(telling his employees in tesla during the financial crisis): i^v^m available 24/7 to help solve issues, call me 3am on a sunday morning, i don^v^t care.

11. and how did musk recruit the scientists and other technical people he needed to join him in order to create, and quickly, a private rocket company capable of taking over the transport of space cargo after nasa’s space shuttle program ended? “it would have been quite difficult if i’d just started off by cold-calling them and saying that i wanted to start a rocket company,” he says. “what i said instead – because these people were working at northrop-grumman, boeing, and other big aerospace companies – was ‘would you mind helping me with a feasibility study to find out if it’s possible to make significant advancements in rocket technology? it will involve a few weekends and evenings of your time,’ i said i’d pay a decent amount for their help, and so they were enthusiastic. we had a series of meetings, and the people i recruited put a lot of thought into it and came to the conclusion that yes, it would be possible to build better rockets than had been made before.” was it really that straightforward? says musk, “i essentially led them to a conclusion that they created. it was sort of a socratic dialogue on a technical level. the essence of a socratic dialogue,” he adds with another of his trademark soft laughs, “is that people wind up convincing themselves. people are much more willing to change their opinion if you’re not forcing it.”

12. it’s better to have a higher quality venture capitalist who you think would be great to work with than to get a higher valuation with someone where there’s even a question mark, really.”

13. space is a tough one for first-time entrepreneurs, you better off starting something that requires low capital, and space is a high capital effort.

14. elon: when i went to college, i rarely went to class. i just read the textbook and then chew up for exams.

15. if there are 2 paths and we have to choose one thing or the other, and one wasn^v^t obviously better than the other, then rather than spend a lot of time trying to figure out which one is slightly better, we^v^ll just pick one and do it. sometimes we^v^d be wrong and we picked the suboptimal path, often it^v^s better to pick a path and do it than to just vacillate on a choice.

16. elon was the only funder of the company(spacex) for the early years, another incredibly risky move, to say: nobody on the planet thinks this idea is financeable, i^v^m gonna fund all of it myself. he put in 100 million dollars, the majority of his net worth at the time.

17. asker: when it comes to researching and analyzing an entrepreneur opportunity, how do you go about qualifying or legitimizing such a pursuit? elon: i^v^m not sure if i^v^m the best guy here (to answer this question), because things i^v^ve chosen have not been optimized on a risk/return basis, i would not say that i went to the rocket business, car business or the solar business thinking that it^v^s a great opportunity, i just thought that something needed to be done in these industries in order to make a difference, and that^v^s why i did it. but in general i do think you should think about what you are doing will result in a disruptive change or not, if it^v^s just incremental, it^v^s unlikely to be something major. it^v^s gonna be something that^v^s substantially better than what^v^s going on before.

18. (context: when launching the 4th rocket, after the first 3 rockets failed to reach orbit)

19. inc. journalist: he(elon) looked around and he saw that the world-changing stuff was not happening at stanford.

20. his mother has been quoted as recalling, “he read the entire encyclopedia britannica when he was only eight or nine, and he remembered it.”

21. elon: i^v^m not really super hardcore of being ultra-environmental, because i think that you don^v^t want to make life miserable, we want to create a better future, but a better future is not where we are constantly deprive ourselves the things we love.

22. “it’s something of a cliché,” he says, “but a lot of my ideas nowadays come to me when i’m in the shower,” he says. “it’s because i’ve been thinking about them, the mind processing them subconsciously while i’m sleeping, and what’s the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? you take a shower.”

23. “i think it’s very important to have a feedback loop. like where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. i think that’s probably the single best bit of advice, is just constantly be thinking about how you could do things better and questioning yourself.”

24. “i was going to do physics and engineering at waterloo, but then i visited the campus … and, you may not want to print this,” elon says with a laugh, “but there didn’t seem to be any girls there! so, i visited queen’s, and there were girls there. i didn’t want to spend my undergraduate time with a bunch of dudes.”

25. kimbal musk(elon^v^s brother): we decided that we were going to open an arcade near our high school, we were big into video games and we figured that it^v^s going to be a huge hit. we got a lease on the building, we got the arcade provider to provide the equipment, and the only thing we needed to do at the end of it was to get the city to approve what we were doing. and of course, they told us we cannot open an arcade.

26. “there are times, late at night, when i pace,” he confides. “if i’m trying to solve a problem, and i think i’ve got some elements of it kind of close to being figured out, i’ll pace for hours trying to think it through.”

27. (when asked about the most important qualities of entrepreneurs): an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important, so being obsessive and impulsive is a good thing in this context. really liking what you do, whoever area you get into, even if you are the best of the best, there always a chance of failure, so it^v^s important that what you really like what you are doing, if you don^v^t like it, life is too short. if you like what you are doing, you^v^ll think about it even when you are not working, it^v^s something your mind is drawn to, you just really can^v^t make it work, i think.

28. (when asked to compare zip2 and paypal, which are the 2 companies he built before spacex and tesla)i took the similar approaches to building both companies, which was to have a small group of very talented people and keep it small. paypal had about 30 engineers, for a system that i would say is more sophisticated than federal reserve clearing system.

29. “persistence is very important. you should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” he later says: “you have to be cautious in always saying one should always persist and never give up because there actually are times when you should give up, because you’re doing something in error. but if you’re convinced that what you’re doing is correct then you should never give up.”

30. interviewer: advice for first-time entrepreneurs?

31. at the beginning of starting spacex, i thought that the most likely outcome is failure.

32. maye musk: “his brain was just ahead of everyone else’s and we thought he was deaf, so we took him to the doctor. but he was just in his own world.” musk shrugs when i tell him that story. “they took my adenoids out, but it didn’t change anything.it’s just when i’m concentrating on something i tune everything else out.” he was bullied by other kids. he hated going to school. he was obsessed with facts and reading. “if someone said the moon is, like, a million miles away,” says maye, “he’d say, ‘no, it’s 238,855 miles from the earth, depending on when you view it.’ kids would just go ‘huh?’ he’s just curious about everything and never stops reading and remembers everything he reads. he’s not in la-la land; he just sees everything as a problem that can be fixed.”

33. elon: i read all the comics i could buy, or that they let me read at the bookstores before chasing me away. i read everything i could get my hands on from when i woke up to when i went to sleep. at one point, i really ran out of books, i started reading encyclopedia.

34. “work like hell. i mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [this] improves 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 know that….you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.”

35. kimbal musk: when elon was starting paypal, his goal was not to improve person-to-person payment, his goal was to transform the financial industry.

36. elon: the internet came along, i thought: okay, for the internet, i^v^m pretty sure that success is one of the possible outcomes, and it seems like i can either do a phd and watch it happen, or i can participate and help it happen. so i decided to put things in hold, and started an internet company.

37. we don^v^t worry too much about intellectual property, paperwork and legal stuff, we are very focused on building the best product that we possibly could, both zip2 and paypal were very product-focused companies. we were incredibly obsessed about how do we build something that would really going to be the best possible customer experience. that was a far more effective selling tool than having a giant sales force or taking up marketing gimmicks or 12-step processes or whatever.

38. inc. journalist: if you ask elon how he taught himself rocket science, he will just look at you very seriously and just say very quietly: i read a lot of books.