Elon Musk: Be Proactive, Make Things Happen
Elon Musk - Take Risks
Business magnate Elon Musk shares his personal story about hard work and dedication and urges us to be bold to make big things happen.
Transcript:
"When my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment, we just rented a small office, and we slept on the couch. We showered at the YMCA. We were so hard-up, we had just one computer. The website was up during the day, and I was coding at night. Seven days a week, all the time. If you do the simple math, say like ... Okay, if somebody else is working 50 hours and you're working 100, you'll get twice as much done in the course of a year as the other company.
"Rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truth you can imagine and you reason up from there. This is a good way to figure out if something really makes sense or if it's just what everybody else is doing. Now is the time to take risks. I would encourage you to take risks now. Do something bold. You won't regret it. Thank you."
Two of Mr. Moriarty's students pose with their yearbook from 1982.WHAM via CNN / Video
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Black and white photos from school yearbookWHAM via CNN / Video
Patrick Moriarty (center, blue shirt) and a group of his former students watched the solar eclipse together on Monday in New York.Caitlin Moriarty Hynick
