The vehicle is in self-align自己. Securing保护 stage 1, stage 2 heaters. Go OSM-RCO RC on countdown 1 with a comm check. Stage 1, stage 2 ACS, secured保护 for flight. VC, verify检验 Falcon 1s and start up. Falcon 1s and start up. Flight software has controlled控制 the vehicle. Stage举行 1, stage举行 2 impressive给人印象深刻的 for flight. T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. When you had that third failure失败 in a row, did you think I need to pack this in? Never. Why not?
I don't ever give up. I mean, I'd have to be dead or completely十分 incapacitated. Lift off of the Falcon 9. Eight leaves later, must bet打赌 the company on another flight. We have lift off. This time around, everything worked. Perfect. If that fourth launch发射 hadn't worked, that would have been it. We would have not had the resources资源 to mount增加 a fifth. Successful entrepreneurs<法>企业家 probably coming all sides of shapes and flavors. For me, some of the things I've described already are very important.
I think really an obsessive强迫性的 nature大自然 with respect to the quality of the product. Really liking what you do, whatever area that you get into, given that even if you're the best, the best, there's always a chance of failure失败. So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, lack缺乏 is too short. 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.
And we shouted the YMCA and we had just one computer. So the website was up during the day and I was coding欺骗 at night. Seven days a week, all the time. I mean, you need to work super hard. Work hard like every waking hour. It was a week that shook Wall Street and indeed the world. And a realization实现 that the economy经济 may still head率领 into a deeper downturn. Not in generations has Wall Street absorbed吸收 the number of body blows it took today.
The American financial财政的 system体系 is rock to its foundation基础 as top Wall Street institutions协会 topple倾倒 under a mountain of debt债. When you step back for just a moment, consider认为 the events of the last few days. It is truly unbelievable难以置信的. Tesla stock树干 voted选举 by Wall Street as the least likely可能的 to succeed成功. You put $90 billion, like 50 years worth值…的 of breaks into solar太阳的 and wind. To Salindra and Fisker and Tesla and NR1. I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers.
I'm available可利用的 24/7 to help solve issues. I call me 3AM on a Sunday morning, I don't care. We didn't just repay偿还 the principal首长, we actually实际上 repaid偿还 it with interest and a bonus奖金 pay. So ultimately最后 the U.S. Secretary actually实际上 made a profit益处 of over $20 million on this loan贷款. 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 really can't make it work, I think.
A well thought-out critique批评 of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold. You need to be sort of very rigorous严格的 in your self-analysis自己. All those things improve the odds奇数 of success. Other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks. Then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve完成 in four months when it takes them a year to achieve完成. If you do a 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.
The final thing I would encourage鼓励 you to do is now is the time to take risk风险, particularly特别 if you're starting a company. As you get older, your obligations义务 increase. And once you have a family, you start taking risks风险 not just for yourself, but for your family as well. It gets much harder to do things that might not work out. So now is the time to do that, before you have those obligations义务. So I would encourage鼓励 you to take risks风险 now, do something bold大胆的. You are a god.