When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
"People tend to think like, 'Why should electric vehicles have a subsidy,' but they're not taking into account that all fossil fuel-burning vehicles fundamentally are subsidised by the cost—the environmental cost—to Earth, but nobody's paying for it... We are going to pay for it, obviously—in the future we'll pay for it. It's just not paid for now."—Elon Musk (interview with Joe Rogan, published 2018-09-06)
"Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!"
I think there is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multi-planetary in order to safeguard the existence of humanity in the event that something catastrophic were to happen.
"I don’t get the little ship thing. You can’t show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing."
"It would be an incredible adventure. And life needs to be more than just solving every day problems. You need to wake up and be excited about the future"
One thing that is important is that, if you have a choice between a lower valuation with someone you really like, or higher valuation with someone you have a question mark about, take the lower valuation.
"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong; than pessimistic and right."