马斯克的给企业家的名言警句

26. Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.

26.乐观主义、悲观主义；我们会让它发生的。作为上帝的见证，我下定决心要让它发挥作用。

27. The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

27.第一步是确定某事是可能的；那么概率就会发生。

28. Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

28.坚持不懈非常重要。除非被迫放弃，否则你不应该放弃。

30. I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

30.我要么看着它发生，要么成为它的一部分。

31. There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

31.人们对冒险有着巨大的偏见。每个人都在努力优化对抗风险。

32. 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… No task is too menial.

32.如果你是联合创始人或首席执行官，你必须做各种你可能不想做的任务……如果你不做杂事，公司就不会成功……没有什么任务是太卑微的。

33. My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

33.我最大的错误可能是过于看重某人的天赋，而不是某人的个性。我认为一个人是否有一颗善良的心很重要。

34. Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.

34.创办和发展一家企业与他们销售的产品一样，也与背后的人的创新、动力和决心息息相关。

35. Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

35.天赋极其重要。这就像一支运动队，拥有最好个人球员的球队通常会获胜，但这些球员如何合作以及他们采用的策略会产生倍增效应。

36. Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour workweeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

36.拼命工作。我的意思是，你每周只需要工作80到100个小时。[这]提高了成功的几率。如果其他人每周工作40小时，而你每周工作100小时，那么即使你也在做同样的事情，你也知道你会在四个月内实现他们一年才能实现的目标。

37. Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.

37.真正关注并征求负面反馈，尤其是来自朋友的反馈…几乎没有人这样做，这非常有帮助。

38. What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.

38.是什么让创新思维发生？…我认为这真的是一种心态。你必须做出决定。

39. Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

39.做企业家就像吃玻璃，凝视死亡的深渊。

40. You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.

40.你不应该因为他们不同而做得不同。他们需要…变得更好。

41. It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.

41.喜欢和你一起工作的人非常重要，否则你的生活和工作会很悲惨。

42. I think the best way to attract venture capital is to try and come up with a demonstration of whatever product or service it is and ideally take that as far as you can. Just see if you can sell that to real customers and start generating some momentum. The further along you can get with that, the more likely you are to get funding.

42.我认为吸引风险投资的最佳方式是尝试展示任何产品或服务，最好是尽可能地做到这一点。看看你能不能把它卖给真正的客户，并开始产生一些动力。你能走得越远，你就越有可能获得资金。

43. Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.

43.不要自欺欺人地认为某事正在发挥作用，否则你会执着于一个糟糕的解决方案。

44. I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.

44.我总是很乐观，但我很现实。我创办特斯拉或太空探索技术公司并不是出于对巨大成功的期望……只是我认为它们无论如何都足够重要。

45. The things that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because actually, life’s pretty good. It really is.

45.值得做的事情是努力提高我们对世界的理解，更好地欣赏宇宙，不要太担心没有意义。而且，你知道，试着享受一下。因为实际上，生活很美好。确实如此。

46. If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are OK, nurture the sapling and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

46.如果你想种一棵巨大的红木，你需要确保种子没问题，培育树苗，并找出可能阻止它一直生长的因素。任何在任何时候打破它的东西都会阻止这种增长。

47. My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

47.我的心态是武士的心态。我宁愿自杀也不愿失败。

48. I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

48.我不相信过程。事实上，当我面试一位潜在员工时，他或她说“这都是关于过程的”，我认为这是一个坏兆头。问题是，在很多大公司，过程取代了思考。我们鼓励你表现得像复杂机器中的一个小齿轮。坦率地说，它允许你留住那些不那么聪明、不那么有创造力的人。

49. As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.

49.尽可能避免雇佣MBA。MBA课程不教人们如何创建公司。

50. Whatever you do, whatever area that you get into, even if you’re the best of the best, there’s always a chance of failure. So I think it’s important that you really like whatever you’re doing. If you don’t like it, life’s too short. If you like what you’re doing, you think about it even when you’re not working. It’s something that your mind is drawn to, and if you don’t like it, you just can’t make it work.

50.无论你做什么，无论你进入哪个领域，即使你是最好的，也总有失败的机会。所以我认为重要的是你真的喜欢你所做的一切。如果你不喜欢它，生命太短暂了。如果你喜欢你正在做的事情，即使你不工作，你也会考虑它。这是你的思维所吸引的东西，如果你不喜欢它，你就无法让它发挥作用。

29.I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

29.我认为普通人有可能选择与众不同。