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. @elonmusk 's advice for young people: (i) try to be useful; contribute > consume (ii) learn as much as possible; read extensively (iii) find the overlap between what you're talented in and enjoy doing (iv) think positive-sum; celebrate others (v) apply the mental tools of

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Jensen Huang: "Greatness does not come from intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't isn't formed out of smart people: it's formed out of people who have suffered."

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Mark Zuckerberg: Your ability to succeed depends on your willingness to be embarrassed and fail.

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Jeff Bezos on Managing Stress "Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that’s a warning flag for me; what it means is, there’s something that I

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Elon Musk: "Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic."

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Jensen Huang: Do irreplaceable work. Work on things which without you, wouldn't / couldn't get done by anyone else.

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. @sama : "Innovation is easier with small teams making decisive, concentrated bets, who don't tolerate mediocre performers. That's it."

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"If everything you do needs to work on a 3-year time horizon, then you're competing against a lot of people. But if you're willing to invest on a 7-year time horizon, you're now competing against a fraction of those people..." — Jeff Bezos

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Sam Altman ( @sama ): "The most underrated quality is being really determined. This is more important than being smart, having a network or a great idea. So much about being a successful entrepreneur is just not giving up."

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Peter Thiel: "Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

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Mark Zuckerberg: Pick something you care about and work on it, but don’t commit to turning it into a company until it’s working. A tremendous percentage of the very best companies didn't come from people who decided upfront that they wanted to start a company.

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Peter Thiel's advice for young people: (i) think very hard / concretely about the future (ii) do not substitute education for thought (iii) avoid hyper-competition; do not do what everyone else is doing (iv) identify areas of innovation at the frontier; do new things there

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Peter Thiel's advice for young people: (i) think very hard / concretely about the future (ii) do not substitute education for thought (iii) avoid hyper-competition; do not do what everyone else is doing (iv) identify areas of innovation at the frontier; do new things there

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. @elonmusk 's Engineering Design Process 1. Make requirements less dumb 2. Delete the part or process 3. Simplify or optimize 4. Accelerate cycle-time 5. Automate "The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimise a thing that should not exist...”

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Marc Andreessen: "The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think."

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Sam Altman on hard work.

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Steve Jobs on hard work.

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Paul Graham on why ambitious people need each other.

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Elon Musk: "This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers... if you want the future to be good, you must make it so."

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Peter Thiel's advice for young people: (i) think very hard / concretely about the future (ii) do not substitute education for thought (iii) avoid hyper-competition; do not do what everyone else is doing (iv) identify areas of innovation at the frontier; do new things there

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Your ability to succeed depends on your willingness to be embarrassed and fail.

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Sam Altman on what stood out to him about Elon Musk: "I remember when Elon took me on a tour of the SpaceX factory many years ago. The thing that sticks in memory was the look of absolute certainty on his face when he talked about sending large rockets to Mars. I left thinking

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Sam Altman: Don’t be afraid to work on what you really want to work on.

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Mark Zuckerberg: The most important thing you can do is surround yourself with the right people.

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Andrej Karpathy's ( @karpathy ) advice for young people: (i) focus on inputs rather than outputs (ii) put in your 10,000 hours (iii) run your own race; only compare yourself with your past self (iv) ask yourself: "what have you done this past week?"

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Sam Altman on how to accomplish big things: 1. Focus 2. Personal Connections 3. Self-Belief / Conviction

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Peter Thiel: "What I think people like Zuckerburg or Musk or Jeff Bezos at Amazon have in common is that they’re relentless. They don’t stop. Every day, they start over, do more, get better at it. People often ask whether Facebook was just a fluke, in the right place at the right

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The most important decision you can make early on in your life is who you surround yourself with. You become like the people around you.

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Jeff Bezos: "It's our choices that define us, not our gifts."

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Peter Thiel: Meaning is found in doing things that are important, that otherwise wouldn't get done. Do the work that only you can do.

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Steve Jobs: "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you — and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

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Keith Rabois: "Most people will solve problems that they understand how to solve. Roughly speaking, they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high-impact problems for your company but they're difficult--you don't wake up in the morning with a solution

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Sam Altman: "Momentum is everything in a startup. Startups that win keep winning, and startups that lose keep losing."

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Mark Zuckerburg: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

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Sam Altman: Almost everyone will try to pull you back and say: 'that seems a little bit too crazy, too out there, too ambitious..." Surround yourself with people who will make you more ambitious.

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It is not the most intelligent who succeed, but the most determined.

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Sam Altman on why you should be taking more risk.

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Thiel: "Competition makes us better at that which we're competing on, but it narrows our focus to beating the people around us. It distracts us from things that are more valuable or more important or more meaningful."

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Sam Altman: "Being young, poor and unknown, is actually a great gift in terms of the amount of risk you can take... What risk actually looks like is not doing something that you will then spend the rest of your life regretting."

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Peter Thiel: "...there is always the risk of doing something that's not that significant or meaningful."

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Jeff Bezos: "Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1."

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"There’s a common question in Silicon Valley about what makes an extraordinary entrepreneur. Experienced investors point to various traits. Perseverance. Grit. Overcoming adversity. Hustle. Innate genius. A good childhood. A bad childhood. Luck. But the trait that is most

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@0FJAKE @rabois Solutions to A+ problems only arise as a result of focus.

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@andrewmccalip @elonmusk I think you become passionate about things by just working at it for a long time and getting good at something. People have natural interests, but those are quick fickle when young tbh. Great nuance.

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@andrewmccalip Every high-alpha engineer comes to realize they also need to be able to sell. @elonmusk might be the GOAT at this striking both points, and that’s what makes him so special, in my opinion.

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@AbhayVenkatesh1 @elonmusk Think it's because he is looking to give general, universally applicable advice to the average listener. He seems to have no problem revealing alpha on his views / thought processes while on earnings calls.

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I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

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@AbhayVenkatesh1 @sama Competition is for losers.

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@andrewmccalip . @sama : "I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote."

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@BhaskarSteve Not explicitly I don’t think, but this was the first founder that came to my mind as well.

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@andrewmccalip @elonmusk Art is a privilege society must earn by solving for technology first.

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@AbhayVenkatesh1 @sama @PalmerLuckey as well.

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@jagunlabi_m @andrewmccalip Build + sell.

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@andrewmccalip Exactly.

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@joerslack @BrianJJi but you gotta admit BUILD OR DIE has more of a call to action :)

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