Elon Musk: “If you want to create something valuable financially, you…”

“Aim to make more than you take. Be a, you know, a net contributor to society. And it's kind of like the pursuit of happiness. You know, If you want to create something valuable financially, you don't pursue that. It's best to actually pursue providing useful products and services. If you do that, then money will come as a natural consequence of that as opposed to pursuing money directly. Just like you can't sort of pursue happiness directly.” (1:52:03–1:52:14)

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