Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • a well thought out critique of whatever you are doing

  • is as valuable as gold

  • that third failure in a row

  • did you think I need to pack this in

  • never

  • why not

  • I don't ever give up

  • I mean I have to be

  • dead or completely inpascinated eight weeks later Musk

  • bet the company on another flight

  • We have lift off

  • this time around everything worked. Perfect!

  • if that 4th launched hadn't worked that would have been it

  • we would not have the resources to mount a fifth

  • successful entrepreneur probably come in all

  • sizes, shapes and flavours

  • some of the things Ive described alrready i think are very important. I think

  • really an obsessive

  • nature with respect to the quality of the product really really liking what you do

  • what whatever you get in to erm, given that

  • Even if your the best of the best theres allways chance of failure

  • so i think it's important that you really like what your doing

  • If you dont like it life is to short

  • when my brother and I were starting our new company

  • And instead of getting a apartment we Just rented a small office and we slept on the couch

  • We just had one computer

  • so the website was up during the day and I was coding at night

  • seven days a week all the time

  • you just keep going and get it done

  • You put $90 billion dollars

  • like 50 years worth of breaks, into

  • in to solar and wind too

  • to Solyndra and Fisker and Tester and Ener1

  • I mean, I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers

  • I'm available 24/7 to help solve issues

  • call me 3am on a sunday morning I don't care

  • but his bets payed off, we didn’t just repay the principle,

  • we actually repaid it with interest and a bonus payment.

  • Ultimately, the U.S. taxpayer actually made a profit of over $12 million on this loan.

  • work like hell I mean just have to but in you know 80 hour

  • 80 too 100 hour weeks every week. If other people are putting 40 hour weeks

  • and your putting

  • 100 hour work weeks you will achieve

  • in four months what it takes them a year to achieve

  • An naturall human tendancey is wishful thinking

  • so a challenge for entrepatures is to say so whats the difference between

  • really believe in you ideals and sticking to them

  • versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit

  • your product or service needs to be much better It can't just be a little bit better

  • All those things improve the odds of success. I think my drive

  • is somewhat disconnected from

  • hope, enthusiasim or anything else

  • I just...... I actually don't care about hope

  • or enthusiasm or motivation I just give it everything Ive got

  • irrespective of what the circumstances may be

a well thought out critique of whatever you are doing

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it

B1 US

RISK - Motivational video [Elon Musk] (埃隆-馬斯克) (RISK - Motivational video [Elon Musk])

  • 470 34
    alex posted on 2021/01/14
Video vocabulary