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A collection of more than 400 quotes from Elon Musk, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and tech icon. Part of the In Their Own Words series.
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Get inside the head of one of the most compelling entrepreneurs of our time with this collection of quotes from global business icon Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX.Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future of humanity.Now, the most insightful, thought-provoking, and revealing quotes from this entrepreneurial engineer have been compiled into a single book. Elon Musk: In His Own Words is a comprehensive guide to the inner workings of the man dubbed 'the real Tony Stark.' Hundreds of his best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, clean energy, innovation, engineering, technology, space, electric vehicles, entrepreneurship, life lessons, and more, provide an intimate and direct look into Silicon Valley's most ambitious industrialist.Even with no prior experience in the complex, ultra-high-barrier-of-entry automotive and space industries, Musk has excelled. Tesla, the first successful American car startup in more than 90 years, received more than 325,000 reservations for its economical Model 3 in a single week - advancing the company's cause to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport: via affordable, reliable electric vehicles. SpaceX, the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a rocket and dock at the International Space Station, has drastically reduced the cost of launching and manufacturing reusable spacecraft, which the company sees as the first step toward its 'ultimate goal' of making life multiplanetary. In the words of Richard Branson, 'Whatever skeptics have said can't be done, Elon has gone out and made real.'Newly updated and repackaged from its original publication in 2017 as Rocket Man: Elon Musk In His Own Words, this book curates Musk quotes from interviews, public appearances, online postings, company blogs, press releases, and more. What emerges is a 'word portrait' of the man whose companies' swift rise to the top will undoubtedly keep their status-quo competitors scrambling to keep up.
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B2 Books is an imprint of Agate Publishing.
Review
PRAISE FOR AGATE B2'S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES, IN THEIR OWN WORDS:"[I, Steve] is the same treatment given such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Hitchens and offers Jobs's views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics."—Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post"[Impatient Optimist] is like eating salted peanuts: Once you start reading, it's hard to stop."—Anne Fisher, CNN Money"A new book revealing many of Steve Jobs' most illuminating quotes..."—Lance Whitney, CNET"A 160-page collection of quotes from the most iconic product pitchman since P.T. Barnum." —Ben Popper, The New York Observer BetaBeat blog"A much better Jobs product is coming soon. It'll entertain you for hours, and no—it is not a Jobs-branded iPad or anything similarly high-tech. It is, friends, an old-fashioned book!"—Hillary Reinsberg, Mogulite"Inspirational reading pleasure."—Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web"The kind of book that you read, think about, and then pass on to a friend or colleague...I learned a lot about Jobs' thinking process." —Allen Stern, CenterNetworks"[Boy Billionaire] reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who has arguably created one of the world's largest companies…and who is also one of the world's greatest social connectors." —Strategy Driven"A short work to be dipped into for nuggets of business (or law firm) wisdom..."— Michael Roach, Law Technology News
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Get inside the head of one of the most compelling entrepreneurs of our time with this collection of quotes from global business icon Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future of humanity. Now, the most insightful, thought-provoking, and revealing quotes from this entrepreneurial engineer have been compiled into a single book. Elon Musk: In His Own Words is a comprehensive guide to the inner workings of the man dubbed 'the real Tony Stark.' Hundreds of his best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, clean energy, innovation, engineering, technology, space, electric vehicles, entrepreneurship, life lessons, and more, provide an intimate and direct look into Silicon Valley's most ambitious industrialist. Even with no prior experience in the complex, ultra-high-barrier-of-entry automotive and space industries, Musk has excelled. Tesla, the first successful American car startup in more than 90 years, received more than 325,000 reservations for its economical Model 3 in a single week -- advancing the company's cause to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport: via affordable, reliable electric vehicles. SpaceX, the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a rocket and dock at the International Space Station, has drastically reduced the cost of launching and manufacturing reusable spacecraft, which the company sees as the first step toward its 'ultimate goal' of making life multiplanetary. In the words of Richard Branson, 'Whatever skeptics have said can't be done, Elon has gone out and made real.' Newly updated and repackaged from its original publication in 2017 as Rocket Man: Elon Musk In His Own Words , this book curates Musk quotes from interviews, public appearances, online postings, company blogs, press releases, and more. What emerges is a 'word portrait' of the man whose companies' swift rise to the top will undoubtedly keep their status-quo competitors scrambling to keep up.
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PRAISE FOR AGATE B2'S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES, IN THEIR OWN WORDS: "[ I, Steve ] is the same treatment given such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Hitchens and offers Jobs's views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics."--Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post "[ Impatient Optimist ] is like eating salted peanuts: Once you start reading, it's hard to stop."--Anne Fisher, CNN Money "A new book revealing many of Steve Jobs' most illuminating quotes..."--Lance Whitney, CNET "A 160-page collection of quotes from the most iconic product pitchman since P.T. Barnum." --Ben Popper, The New York Observer BetaBeat blog "A much better Jobs product is coming soon. It'll entertain you for hours, and no--it is not a Jobs-branded iPad or anything similarly high-tech. It is, friends, an old-fashioned book!"--Hillary Reinsberg, Mogulite "Inspirational reading pleasure."--Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web "The kind of book that you read, think about, and then pass on to a friend or colleague...I learned a lot about Jobs' thinking process." --Allen Stern, CenterNetworks "[ Boy Billionaire ] reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who has arguably created one of the world's largest companies...and who is also one of the world's greatest social connectors." -- Strategy Driven "A short work to be dipped into for nuggets of business (or law firm) wisdom..."-- Michael Roach, Law Technology News
Excerpt from Book
"It''s better to approach this [building a company] from the standpoint of saying--rather than you want to be an entrepreneur or you want to make money--what are some useful things that you do that you wish existed in the world?" --in conversation with Bill Gates, Boao Forum for Asia, March 29, 2015 "The biggest mistake in general that I''ve made--and I''m trying to correct for that--is to put too much of a weighting on somebody''s talent and not enough on their personality. . . . It actually matters whether somebody has a good heart. It really does. And I''ve made the mistake of thinking that sometimes it''s just about the brain." --SXSW Conference, March 9, 2013 "Establish an expectation of innovation, and the compensation structure must reflect that. There must also be an allowance for failure because if you are trying something new, necessarily there is some chance it will not work. If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly, and the innovation you get will be very incrementalist. Nobody''s going to try anything bold for fear of getting fired or being punished in some way. The risk-reward must be balanced and favor taking bold moves. Otherwise, it will not happen." --Offshore Northern Seas, August 2014 "Start somewhere and then really be prepared to question your assumptions, fix what you did wrong, and adapt to reality." --Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, October 2015 "I don''t think everything needs to change the world, you know. . . . Just say: ''Is what I''m doing as useful as it could be?''" --STVP Future Fest, October 7, 2015 "There are three things you look for: You have to look forward in the morning to doing your work. You do want to have a significant financial reward. And you want to have a possible effect on the world. If you can find all three, you have something you can tell your children." -- Pennsylvania Gazette , November 4, 2008 "If something''s important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure." -- 60 Minutes , March 30, 2014 "You can learn whatever you need to do to start a successful business either in school or out of school. A school, in theory, should help accelerate that process, and I think oftentimes it does. It can be an efficient learning process, perhaps more efficient than empirically learning lessons. There are examples of successful entrepreneurs who never graduated high school, and there are those that have PhDs. I think the important principle is to be dedicated to learning what you need to know, whether that is in school or empirically." --lecture at Stanford University, October 8, 2003 "Do you have the right axioms, are they relevant, and are you making the right conclusions based on those axioms? That''s the essence of criticial thinking, and yet it is amazing how often people fail to do that. I think wishful thinking is innate in the human brain. You want things to be the way you wish them to be, and so you tend to filter information that you shouldn''t filter." --CLEAN-tech Investor Summit, January 19, 2011 "One should have a healthy skepticism of things in general, and from a scientific standpoint, you always look at things probabilistically, not definitively. A lot of times, if somebody''s a skeptic in the science community, what they''re really saying is that they''re not sure that it''s 100 percent certain that this is the case. But that''s not the point. The point is to look at it from the other side and say, ''What do you think the percentage chance is of this being catastrophic for some meaningful percentage of the Earth''s population? Is it greater than 1 percent? Is it even 1 percent? If it is even 1 percent, why are we running this experiment?'' We''re playing Russian roulette [with the atmosphere], and as each year goes by, we''re loading more rounds in the chamber." --CHM Revolutionaries, January 22, 2013 "This is what the world needs. This is the ultimate solution for Earth. That''s what we''re talking about here. Solar power, stationary storage, electric cars--this is Earth''s solution. We''re going to try to make that happen as fast as possible, and the fundamental good of SolarCity and Tesla will be measured by the degree to which we accelerate that transition." --press teleconference on Tesla acquisition of SolarCity, June 22, 2016 "I think what matters is the actions, not what people think of me in the future. I''ll be long dead. But the actions that I take, will they have been useful?" -- GQ , December 12, 2015
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The latest relaunched title in the In Their Own Words quotation book series, presented in a gift-worthy package. The small format makes this book a perfect register-side add-on purchase. Agate B2's In Their Own Words series has sold more than 180,000 copies to date. This new edition builds on the overwhelming success of previous In Their Own Words series titles, such as the New York Times bestseller I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words . More than 400 quotes from Elon Musk, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, business icon, and founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. In 2013, he was named the Fortune Business Person of the Year, and he was included on the Forbes list of America's Most Innovative Leaders of 2019, sharing the top spot with Jeff Bezos.
Details ISBN1572842989 Pages 160 Series In Their Own Words Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1572842989 ISBN-13 9781572842984 Format Paperback Country of Publication United States Imprint Surrey Books,U.S. Place of Publication Chicago, IL Author B2 Books NZ Release Date 2021-08-26 US Release Date 2021-08-26 Publication Date 2021-08-26 UK Release Date 2021-08-26 Publisher Surrey Books,U.S. Replaces 9781572842144 Alternative 9781572848528 Edited by B2 Books DEWEY 338.04092 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-11-30 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this
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