Elon Musk, the world' hope for future growth lies within his great mind and his team.
He is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder of Tesla, and one of the biggest and brightest investors today. A South African-born American business man who has accomplished so much with many elements fighting against him.
I'd like to share with you some of my favorite quotes from this great mind.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.