Elon Musk Quotes
105 Elon Musk Quotes
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I think it is a good idea to have affordable cars.
Elon Musk
[On why the first Tesla car is a sportscar even though he wants to have affordable cars in August 2009.] If any new technology is expensive when it starts out, and you can point to pretty much anything, and because the first thing that the engineers are trying to do is make it work. And when you make it work then you optimize and you optimize and optimize.
Elon Musk
[On the Tesla Roadster in August 2009] If you want a high performance car with a clean conscience, this is the only option.
Elon Musk
When I started the company, nobody was putting any money into the Internet. In fact, I wasn’t quite sure if I’d be able to pay the rent. But as it turned out, the Internet was pretty huge.
Elon Musk
There is an extreme lack of innovation in… large industries. I saw it as an opportunity.
Elon Musk
I need to be protected against a private equity firm or hedge fund trying to force me to maximize profitability rather than affecting the future of humanity in a positive way. That’s why I have to have a controlling stake, or close to one, in all of my ventures.
Elon Musk
I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.
Elon Musk
The U.S. is where great things are possible.
Elon Musk
It’s important to tell people why someone was fired. Otherwise, they may think that it was a random decision and not based on merit.
Elon Musk
As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
Elon Musk
At my companies, our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.
Elon Musk
Founders should run the company for as long as they reasonably can. You should only consider passing over the reins to somebody as good or better than you are at creating great products.
Elon Musk
I don’t care if I’m arming my competitors: I just want more electric cars on the road.
Elon Musk
You can’t only look at what an individual employee gets done. You also have to look at how they’ve helped people around them get things done.
Elon Musk
One of the most important things that I think will be invented this century, hopefully by SpaceX, is the first fully reusable orbital rocket. It’s the fundamental invention necessary for humanity to expand to the stars and to become multiplanetary.
Elon Musk
I wanted to be involved in something that would matter to the world and be important to the future of humanity.
Elon Musk
[In November 2004 on SpaceX.] We want to be the Southwest Airlines of space launches. They offer flights for a heck of a lot less, have a strong safety record, and are on time.
Elon Musk
[In November 2011] I can totally see every car on the road being electric. We will not stop.
Elon Musk
Sometimes the media tries to create a more antagonistic position than is really the case…
Elon Musk
The reason I created Tesla… is to serve as a catalyst for a transition to electric vehicles.
Elon Musk
The strategy of Tesla has always been to start with a low volume high priced car, then a medium volume medium priced car and then a low priced high volume car.
Elon Musk
[In November 2011. After delivering the Tesla Roadster. Now] We’re on the verge now on delivering the four door sedan – the Model S
Elon Musk
[In November 2011] NASA selected us to take over the cargo transportation function of the space shuttle… We build the whole rocket from scratch, in California actually.
Elon Musk
[In November 2011 on the Tesla Model S] We’re already sold out of next years production… We will produce about 20,000 units a year.
Elon Musk
Find a way or make a way to get something done.
Elon Musk
Bonus
[On Elon Musk] Elon has huge steel balls. He truly does.
Justine Musk
[On Elon Musk] He is very much the person who, when someone says it’s impossible, shrugs and say, ‘I think I can do it.’
Max Levchin
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