One of the biggest challenges I think is making sure you have a corrective feedback loop, And then maintaining that corrective feedback loop over time even when people want to tell you exactly what you want to hear.

I taught myself how to program computers when I was a kid, bought my first computer when I was 10, and sold my first commercial program when I was 12.

- Elon Musk

Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not, or you're gonna get fixated on a bad solution

- Elon Musk

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering

- Elon Musk

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

- Elon Musk

It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

- Elon Musk

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

- Elon Musk

It's very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable

- Elon Musk

I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.

- Elon Musk

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

- Elon Musk

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor

- Franklin Roosevelt

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

- Stephen Hawking

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it

- Stephen Covey

The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

- Donald Davidson

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

- Carolyn Wells

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

- Mae West

When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

- Frank Tyger

No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.

- Anonymous

Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

- Bruno Bettelheim

I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorize success. I authorize it alright. Smile.

- Gertrude Stein

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

- Jos Bergamin

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl Rowan

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche