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    I Don't Ever Give Up - Elon Musk

    [fa icon="clock-o"] Jul 21, 2015 5:00:00 AM [fa icon="user"] David Haneke [fa icon="folder-open'] perseverance, Don't ever give up

    Elon Musk featured on the cover of Time MagazineEven if you've never ridden in a premium electric Tesla, I hope you get the opportunity! Many people respect Elon Musk for his imagination and his attitude of tenacity -- as he says in this motivational video, 'I don't ever give up."

    This motivational video about Elon Musk's tenacity opens with a successful fourth launch of SpaceX, in an interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, who asks, "That third failure in a row (of SpaceX)...did you think, 'I need to pack this in?'", to which Elon Musk responds with, "No". "Why not?" asks Pelley, and Musk confidently responds, "I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or severely incapacitated." Musk continues, "If that fourth launch hadn't worked, that would have been it...we would not have had the resources to launch again."

    Musk talks about the characterstics of someone in business, "Successful entrepreneurs come in all sizes, shapes and flavors...", but he adds one necessary ingredient, "an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product."  Musk also makes a point of how to view your work: "Really like what you do...whatever area of life that you get into...".

    Musk speaks of his humble beginnings, "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 just had one computer. The website was up during the day, and I was coding at night." He concludes, "You just keep going and get it done."

    Musk emphasizes his own productivity, "If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks, and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks, you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve." Musk challenges entrepreneurs to think differently, "A natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so a challenge for entrepreneurs is to say, 'What's the difference between really believing your ideals and sticking to them, versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit.'" 

    Musk concludes his own passion for exellence with, "I think my drive to get it done is somewhere disconnected from hope and enthusiasm or anything else...I just give everything I've got irrespective of what the circumstances may be."

    I think most every sales person has his or her own sense of being an entrepreneur - taking ownership of  circumstances. Similar to how Musk describes his determined drive, each entrepreneur gives everything to make it happen.

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    David Haneke

    Written by David Haneke

    One of the best things I do is to collaborate with our creative production team. I like to see productions get results! Those results include helping tell the vision of an organization, engaging in a sales effort, helping customers better understand the big picture of an organization, or helping clients see the value of services. One of my favorite compliments is from a client that said, "This is the best tool we've had in over 22 years to tell our story!" Specialties: Making an idea or concept come to life through video media: motivational videos, custom video production, and event production.

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