Walter Isaacson: If you don't want Elon Musk to control so many industries, you should learn to get stuff done too.
“Why is Elon successful at some of these things, like getting 5,000 satellites up? He said we used to be a nation of really great risk-takers. Even the people who ran Boeing probably were risk-takers at one point. Not safety risks, but they were going to try rockets.
He said everybody who came here, whether it was on the Mayflower or across the Rio Grande, they were adventurous, they took risks.