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Time and the Financial Times both named Musk as their "Person of the Year" this week, and he defended his controversial use of social media.
The world's richest person, with an estimated $250 billion fortune, also outlined his vision for a Mars colony and praised Warren Buffet.
The 15 best Musk's are lightly edited and compressed for clarity.
1. When other companies have more resources and money than I do, how have they succeeded? They can't hire me.
2. I am good at technology and engineering. One of my talents is everyone's. I can do things that I can't sing or dance to.
3. He doesn't own a house or take vacations, so he doesn't think there's a lot of people who would want to trade places.
4. No one has ever made a fully re-usable rocket. This is an extremely difficult job and we live on a planet. The setting is on maximum but not impossible.
5. The next big thing is to build a city on Mars that is self-sufficient, and bring the animals and creatures of Earth there. It's like a Noah's ark. It's a little weird if there's only two.
6. I'll be surprised if we don't land on Mars in five years.
7. "We did it out of desperation, not because we thought it would be lucrative, but just to show that it could be done."
8. It is not a good substitute for transactional currency, even if it is a store of value. Even though it was created as a joke, dogecoin is better suited for transactions because of its built-in inflation.
9. Those who are managing capital should be good stewards. The government is not a good steward of capital.
10. I'm not a fan of Warren Buffet. He's not consuming in a crazy way. He's got a high net worth, but he's doing a useful job for the economy and should probably keep doing it.
11. I don't think about brand optimization very much. That's obvious from my posts, which are often self-destructive.
12. Are you not entertained? I'm not saying that I don't make foolish statements on my social media accounts. Sometimes I shoot myself in the foot. It's entertaining and interesting.
13. The markets are moving all the time. Musk said that the value of the stock had changed from one day to the next, but he was not sure.
14. This place is a technology monastery. There are some women here, but not many, and it's remote, and we do technology, so this is a technomonastery.
15. I'm trying to get people to Mars, enable freedom of information with Starlink, and free people from the drudgery of driving. It's possible that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to hell is mostly paved with bad intentions.
A Wharton professor breaks down why the metaverse and web 3.0 are still too early to be real, and why investors should expect a shakeout in the year ahead.
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