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elon = grit, as an entrepreneur when i have dark times, i'll read about him to get amped. my favorite quote: "Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to mak
by mas644 12y ago
elon = grit, as an entrepreneur when i have dark times, i'll read about him to get amped. my favorite quote: "Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work." -- back in 2008 after the SpaceX Falcon rocket failed to make orbit 3 times. More context: http://dcurt.is/elon-musks-determination http://dcurt.is/elon-musks-determination
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- adventured 12y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f5hUrv24o3kJ:www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f5hUrv2... Cached because wired seems to have disappeared the original: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa Interesting to note that when he said that, in the third quarter of 2008, he was in the middle of a complete implosion across everything in his life. Adds a very dramatic quality to it.
- cipher0 12y agoThanks for linking, yeah it was an extremely tough period for him.