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