Work hard, like, every waking hour. That's the thing I would say, particularly if you're starting a company.
speech graduation discipline
Elon Musk
USC Commencement 2014, 2014
Focus on signal over noise. A lot of companies get confused — they spend money on things that don't actually make the product better.
speech graduation innovation
Elon Musk
USC Commencement 2014, 2014
Don't just follow the trends. Think in terms of the physics approach of first principles — rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.
speech graduation first principles
Elon Musk
USC Commencement 2014, 2014