https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/elon-musk-this-is-why-i-push-myself.html
Elon Musk温as become infamous for his extreme work schedule.
When he was ramping up production of the Model 3糍esla, he put in as many as?1
20 hours in a week. He澵lept at the factory毪ecause he had no time to go home.
He called 2018 “the most difficult and painful year of my career.” ”[I]t w
as excruciating,”温e told The New York Times.
Elon Musk是以超时工作为名。他在搞特斯拉的model 3时一个礼拜工作120小时，甚至睡
在工厂里，因为他没时间回家。他称2018年为他最痛苦的一年。
In late October Musk finally said he was working a much滟ore manageable schedu
le of 80 to 90 hours乸 week.
This from a man who is already worth more than $20 billion,乸ccording to Forbe
s.
So why does Musk push himself? To hear Musk tell it, he is trying to save plan
et Earth. Literally. Musk wants Tesla to be successful so the world moves away
from driving cars that run on petroleum-derived fuel.
到十月底时他的工作量才减到一个礼拜80-90小时。为什么这位身价超过200亿美金的男人
要这么卖力工作？
因为他想要拯救地球。这是真的，他想要特斯拉成功，让大家不要再买汽油车了。
“Tesla is incredibly important for the future of sustainable transport and en
ergy generation. The fundamental purpose, the fundamental good that Tesla prov
ides is accelerating the advent of sustainable transport and energy production
,”𠮶usk said told Recode’s Kara Swisher. “The success of Tesla is, by far,
the biggest forcing function for the other car makers to get into … electric
cars.”
“特斯拉对未来的永续生态运输以及能源都很重要。特斯拉能做的就是加速再生能源的运
输以及制造产业。特斯拉目前为止最大成功就是让其他车辆也开始转型成电动车。”
Providing alternative methods for mass transportation that do not depend on pe
troleum-derived fuel is key to slowing global warming.
"Yes. It’s very important for the future of the world. It’s very important f
or all life on Earth. This supersedes political parties, race, creed, religion
, it doesn’t matter. If we do not solve the environment, we’re all damned,”
Musk told Swisher.
减缓全球暖化很重要的做法之一就是让大众运输不再只依赖汽油燃料的使用。
“嗯，这对地球的未来很重要。这跟政党政治，种族，宗教信仰都没有关系。如果我们不
设法解决环境问题，我们就都完蛋了。”
"We know we’ll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel & have to use susta
inable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now & avoid increasing risk
of climate catastrophe? Betting that science is wrong & oil companies are righ
t is the dumbest experiment in history by far …"
Elon Musk的推特
“我们都知道我们快把恐龙挖完了，以后一定会靠再生能源。那为什么不现在开始，也顺
便减少气候变迁的灾难阿？赌全球暖化是假消息，然后相信石油公司是对的人，大概在做
史上最白痴的实验了。”
Building an electric car company that will one day mass produce electric vehic
les is not easy, even for an entrepreneur like Musk.
“It’s trivial to start a car company,” Musk tells Swisher. “It is insanely
difficult to make it successful. … So as a startup, a car company, it is far
more difficult to be successful than if you’re an established, entrenched br
and. It is absurd that Tesla is alive. Absurd! Absurd.”
即使是像Musk这样的企业家，要让电动车可以大量制造也是不容易的。
“成立公司没啥了不起的，了不起的是让公司成功。所以说，以一个汽车公司来说，要比
你现在已经建立的品牌更成功，非常的难。所以说特斯拉现在头好壮壮让我感到非常讨厌
。”
Musk attributes Tesla’s survival to this point to “excruciating effort” and
“hundred-hour weeks by everyone,” he told Swisher.
“There wasn’t some other way to do this, Kara,” Musk insisted.
Musk has said he would give over the job of running and building Tesla if ther
e was someone who would be better at it.
Musk将特斯拉现在的地位归功于“自身的爆肝型努力”以及“所有人的每周爆肝工时”。
“只有这样才可以。没有其他办法。”Musk说如果有其他人比他能够会推动特斯拉，他就
会把现在的位子让给他。
“If you have anyone who can do a better job, please let me know. They can hav
e the job. Is there someone who can do the job better? They can have the reins
right now,”𠮶usk told The New York Times in August.
Currently, Tesla’s patents are available for anyone to access.
“如果有人比我更厉害，拜托告诉我。我这位子让给他。有吗？有的话，现在方向盘直接
让给你。”
目前特斯拉的专利每个人都可以使用。
“The whole point of Tesla is to accelerate the advent of electric vehicles. A
nd sustainable transport and trying to help the environment. We think it’s th
e most serious problem that humanity faces. I’m not sure if you know it, but
we open sourced our patents, so anyone who wants to use our patents can use ‘
em for free,”
“特斯拉存在的原因就是要加速电动车推动。以及永续能源的运输系统来帮助环境。我们
认为这是人类要面对最严峻的问题。所以，你知道的，想要用我们特斯拉专利的人，欢迎
你们免费使用。”
“If somebody comes and makes a better electric car than Tesla and it’s so mu
ch better than ours that we can’t sell our cars, and we go bankrupt, I still
think that’s a good thing for the world,” Musk said
“如果有人可以出现，做一台比特斯拉好的，好到我们的车都卖不出去，结果破产，我还
是觉得这是对世界有益的事情。”