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Budget Is a Banned Word
Books Teaching This Pattern
Evidence
Power Play
Tim Higgins · 1 highlights
“One mistake some made early on was justifying an expense by saying that it was within budget. An engineer would long remember the response from Musk: Don’t ever use the word budget with me again because it means you’ve turned off your brain. Generally, Musk would agree to an expense if it was needed, but he wanted assurances that there was a real reason.”
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