Kimbal Musk Quotes

Kimbal Musk

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 20, 1972

Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.

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Food is the new Internet.

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I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.

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We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

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The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

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Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

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The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

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We want our communities to know what real food is.

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We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

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If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

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If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food - simple - there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.

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Our family are all very hard working.

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My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

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My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

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My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.

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Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

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The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.

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The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly recognized as the pioneer in 'green' restaurants across the country.

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Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations and expectations you find in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the challenges inherent in gasoline engines and the promise of the electric engine.

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