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Elon Musk's thinking on Leadership goes deeper than surface-level advice. This curated archive brings together their essential quotes on the subject, revealing patterns and principles you can apply immediately. Each entry includes full source context, allowing you to understand not just what they said, but why it matters. Whether you're navigating challenges or pursuing mastery, these insights offer the mental models you need to think clearly about Leadership.
"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office. It needs to be through engineering and design."
"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work."
"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors."
"If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all the tasks that you might not want to do... No task is too menial."
"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all the kinds of tasks you might not want to do."
"I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer."
"The biggest mistake I made was weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality."
"A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company."
"The most important thing is to make sure that the company is moving in the right direction."
"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed."
"If you are the CEO, you should be doing the most difficult jobs in the company."
"My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality."
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