Kimbal Musk Quotes

Kimbal Musk

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 20, 1972

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

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I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.

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The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

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But for a few twists of fate, the gasoline engine we know today might have just been a small footnote in history.

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If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

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The support we received at OneRiot from the beginning has been amazing. Everyone's door was open, and everyone was rooting for our success. In turn, our team at OneRiot has done everything we can to return the favor.

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Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.

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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

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It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.

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Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.

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Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

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You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

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I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.

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I was totally humbled by how hard it is to create a product every day that needs to be made from scratch.

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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

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I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

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My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

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Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

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If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.

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I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.

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