Elon Musk Quotes
105 Elon Musk Quotes
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Innovation is a collection of complex things that are usually difficult to convey so there is some sound byte that’s given.
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I would just question things… It would infuriate my parents… That I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something ‘cause I’d ask them why. And then I’d consider whether that response made sense given everything else I knew.
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We sold PayPal to Ebay for about a billion and a half.
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I think there’s… plenty of public will for space exploration particularly in the United States which is a nation of explorers.
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The long term vision is to help make life multi-planetary.
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Boeing and Lockheed are the two biggest contractors to NASA. So when you see a rocket getting launched it is either a Boeing, or a Rocky, Lockheed Rocket, typically. NASA does not build the rockets. But NASA will contract with the aerospace companies…
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No one has ever developed a fully developed, a fully reusable orbital transportation system.
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What are the most important elements in the history of life itself?
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[On Tesla Motors] I funded the company and worked with those three guys to develop the Tesla Roadster.
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The Roadster is more than twice as good as a Prius. But it’s $100,000. And the reason is because new technology takes time to optimize.
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[On Solar City.] How do you like this proposition? You put no money down, and your electricity bill goes down?… So they’re growing like gang busters.
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[‘You have triplets and twins?’] Yeah, all boys.
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[In June 2008] Right now I’m probably 60 percent SpaceX, 35 percent Tesla, and five percent Solar City and everything else.
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Laws can be broken where you can find some corner case in a very unusual circumstance that will break it.
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[In June 2008] Getting the right people is extremely important. And I actually interview everyone at SpaceX personally. And we’re a 500 person company. So that’s a lot of interviews.
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It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.
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We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.
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If your boss is an awful person, you’re gonna hate coming to work.
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I think the United States is more open to new ideas than any country in the world. And I think becomes somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that because the United States is open to new ideas, it attracted people from the world who had new ideas.
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[On the United States] It’s filled with people who like new ideas. And who aren’t bound by history.
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A lot of the countries that have been around for a long time are really trapped in their own history.
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[On his role models] I think Edison was certainly a role model probably one of the biggest role models.
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I’m a bigger fan of Edison than Tesla because Edison brought his stuff to market and made those inventions accessible to the world, whereas Tesla didn’t really do that.
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I actually thought [Walt] Disney was a pretty good innovator. I like Disney…
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It’s very important that SpaceX is profitable, or we’ll not be able to earn the money necessary to continue future developments…
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What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.
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Just showing up is half the battle. You gotta try hard to do it, and don’t be afraid of failure.
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You also need to be rooted in reality. It’s easy to get high on your own supply.
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Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
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Sometimes the customer doesn’t actually know what they need.
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As a huge fan of the popular computer game ‘Space Invaders,’ I taught myself how to write computer code and designed my own game called ‘Blast Star’ at the age of 12. I later sold the code to a computer magazine for $500, which back then was a lot of money for a young boy.
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It has always been my belief that it is our destiny to go beyond our planet and develop sustainable environments elsewhere.
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I was disappointed with the lack of innovation in the field of space exploration since man first landed on the moon almost 34 years ago. I figured that if I wanted to go to space and help us in the quest for other planets, I was better off building my own rocket. In the summer of 2002, I founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)…
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The private sector is very good at organization and innovation.
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If something has to be designed and invented, and you have to figure out how to ensure that the value of the thing you create is greater than the cost of the inputs, then that is probably my core skill.
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[In August 2009 on the Tesla Roadster] Zero to 60 in a 3.9 seconds.
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[In August 2009 on Tesla] The whole purpose behind Tesla, the reason I put so much of my time and money into helping create the business, is we want to be a catalyst for accelerating the electric car revolution.
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[In August 2009] A good electric motor such as the one that we have in the Tesla roadster is about 90 percent efficient at turning electricity into motion, whereas a gasoline internal combustion is somewhere in the range of around 17 to 18 percent. Most of what it does is generate heat.
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[In August 2009] If you look at the pace of battery improvement, it is clear that it is inevitable. The future will be entirely electric.
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I try not to be controversial.
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