Elon Musk Quotes: Elon Musk was born on 28. June 1971 in South Africa. Elon Musk is known as the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal
Here we listed motivational, inspirational Elon Musk Quotes
‘”No I do not ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Patience is a virtue, and I am learning patience. It is a tough lesson.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If something is important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is failure.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I will make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It will be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean had not been reusable.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If 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 in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Talent is extremely important. It is like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you are doing is as valuable as gold”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If humanity does not land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Life is too short for long-term grudges.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If you are trying to create a company, it is like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree – make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You should be innovating so fast that you are invalidating your prior patents.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”People should pursue what they are passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.” ‘-Elon Musk
‘”You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that is wrong with it and fix it.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”What I am trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Every mode of transport that we use – whether it is planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses – is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring
civilization.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”In order for us to have a future that is exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we are a space-bearing civilization.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Some people do not like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Physics is a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You should not do things differently just because they are different. They need to be… better.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”When you struggle with a problem, that is when you understand it.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It is really counterintuitive.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Great companies are built on great products.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”In almost any industry, if you are passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it is really fulfilling.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘“Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”’ -Elon Musk
‘”Even if there is a zombie apocalypse, you will still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”It is OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”‘ -Elon Musk Quotes
‘”Government is not that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you have got to have commercial companies do it.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘“Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.”’ -Elon Musk
‘”I just want to retire before I go senile because if I do not retire before I go senile, then I will do more damage than good at that point.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”‘ – Elon Musk
‘”The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you should not even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we had never have had the light bulb.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I have actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I do not mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”What I am trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”People will buy the car just because it is a great car. We want them to think it is excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It is a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you do not have to carry the return fuel when you go there.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back,
though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I do not think it is a good idea to plan to sell a company.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We are obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there will be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Mars is the only place in the solar system where it is possible for life to become multi-planetarian.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it is always expensive.”‘,
‘”There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”As you heat the planet up, it is just like boiling a pot.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Humans need to be a multiplanet species.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”There is a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘“You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.”’ -Elon Musk
‘”My opinion is it is a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we have not seen as much innovation.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you do not have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.1″‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”People often mistake technology for a static picture. It is less like a picture and more like a movie. It is the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It is the acceleration.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It is got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘”Do not be afraid of new arenas.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘“What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“When somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing. Very rarely, is it one little thing. It’s usually a whole bunch of things that collectively amount to a huge innovation.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“There are really two things that have to occur in order for new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”’ -Elon Musk
‘ “When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.”’ -Elon Musk
‘”People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”‘ -Elon Musk
‘If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?”’ -Elon Musk
‘“I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”’ -Elon Musk
‘“It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.”’ -Elon Musk
‘”The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”‘ -Elon Musk
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