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I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.
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As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.
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If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.
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I could either watch it happen, or be part of it.
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The answer was we thought it could be done.
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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It's just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.
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I think South Africa is a great country.
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, "Nah, what's wrong with a horse?" That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
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I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.
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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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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.
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My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.
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One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.
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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.
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There’s a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There’s probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.
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