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Kimbal Musk

(1972) Restaurateur

99 quotes in 313 categories

A paradox of being overweight and starving shows how food can hurt both bodies and society. Kimbal Musk also talks about moving toward real, plant‑based food that truly nourishes people and the planet. He admits that fear of failure once held him back, but he still chases big ideas.

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Kimbal Musk is a restaurateur.

Quick Facts About Kimbal Musk

Born: September 20, 1972
Profession: Restaurateur

About Kimbal Musk

South African-Canadian-American entrepreneur and restaurateur (born 1972)... | Kimbal James Musk is a businessman and restaurateur. He co-owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, with restaurants in Colorado, Chicago, and Austin. He is the co-founder and chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has built hundreds of outdoor classrooms called Learning Gardens in schoolyards

Quotes by Kimbal Musk

We're moving to be more of a plant-based society.

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Our family are all very hard working.

Family

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No one wins in the industrial food system.

Food

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Food is the new Internet.

Food

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I want to make the school-garden movement work.

Garden

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Users are open to ads as long as they're relevant to their realtime experience.

Experience

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Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.

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My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.

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Advertisers really want to create ads that are relevant to the realtime experience.

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The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

Community

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I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.

Cooking

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My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

Business

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There's no doubt about it: people want local, real food.

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I was totally humbled by how hard it is to create a product every day that needs to be made from scratch.

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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

Accident

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Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

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It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

Africa

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We already solved the problem of feeding the world in the 1960s, when we started serving cheeseburgers.

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You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

Community

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Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations…

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I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you…

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The Kitchen was a really great concept; it just wasn't at the price point that made it accessible to people. People could…

Customer

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People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it's like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, 'We're creating community…

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Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the…

Business

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I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and…

Business

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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make…

Body

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Memphis is a vibrant and diverse city that is on the verge of a Real Food renaissance. We are more than thrilled…

City

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Publishers can use realtime ad technology to build their brand on the realtime web. Realtime ad technology gets their hottest content in…

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The support we received at OneRiot from the beginning has been amazing. Everyone's door was open, and everyone was rooting for our…

Amazing

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If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

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Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.

Colorado

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Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.

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We believe PulseRank will replace PageRank over time for the real-time Web.

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Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.

Community

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Everyone has to eat, so the opportunities in the space are incredible.

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A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body.

Body

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You should brine your turkey. Don't even think about not brining your turkey. Ever.

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It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

Chance

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If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.

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Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

Business

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Kimbal Musk by topic

Food (52) People (15) Real food (14) Community (13)