Elon Musk Quotes
105 Elon Musk Quotes (Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, Solar City)
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I think people can choose to be not ordinary.
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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It is our destiny to go beyond our planet and develop sustainable environments elsewhere.
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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.
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The fastest way to make a small fortune in the aerospace industry is to start with a large one.
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Sooner or later we must expand life beyond this green and blue ball or go extinct.
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I do wanna go to space – and eventually it would be really cool if I could go to Mars.
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[As a child] I would just question things…
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The lens of history is a good way to filter more versus less important things.
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The Tesla Roadster… it’s a two-seater sports car, very high performance… In fact, it’s beat any Ferrari or Aston Martin in acceleration. And it has more than twice the energy efficiency of a Prius.
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As Edison said, ‘It’s one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.’
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Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.
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My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
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As far as new companies go, the car business is such a capital intensive business. It doesn’t lend itself to start-ups very well. You need to operate with incredible capital efficiency if you are going to be start-up and succeed in the car business.
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[On cashing out in 1999 for $307 million to Compaq.] Was the largest of all cash transactions for an Internet company. That was certainly a better outcome than I had ever expected.
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As you might imagine, when somebody tries to build an orbital launch vehicle which is not really all that distinguishable from an ICBM [Intercontinental Ballistic Missile], there’s a lot of regulation. And there probably should be, because you don’t want to launch something and end up hitting LA, where I live…
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Given the choice, I’d rather stick a fork in my hand than write about my personal life.
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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
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When you try new things, you try this idea, that idea… well, a large number of them are not gonna work… and that has to be ok. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you’re not gonna get people coming up with ideas.
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We ultimately want to be the company that makes a difference in extension of life beyond Earth – which is one of the most important things that life itself could achieve.
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You have to stay grounded in the short term, cause if you don’t do things that pay the bills, you’re not gonna achieve the ultimate launch and objective. But it’s nice to have that sort of Holy Grail – long-term potential out there as an inspiration for coming to work.
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There’s a big leap between making that first prototype and actually manufacturing it in a large quantity.
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You know early in life, I did lots of risky things when I didn’t have that much that was depending on me. Now, I have to be more cautious about risky things.
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It is easy to get somewhat blasé about a rocket factory if you’re here every day.
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I have to sort of bring myself back, think about the big picture and remind myself that this is, actually, pretty cool, unusual stuff.
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I’m a big believer in us becoming a space exploring civilization and, ultimately, extending life beyond earth.
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When I was in college I tried to think what are the really big problems that face the world, that, which will most affect the future of humanity? And the three that I thought were the most important were the Internet, transition to a sustainable energy economy, and the third was space exploration, in particular, making life multi-planetary.
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[On dropping out of his PhD at Stanford in energy storage technologies for electric vehicles two days in.] I was sort of forced to choose. You know, it’s either start the grad program or… do my Internet company.
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[On the beginning of the internet.] It seemed to me like humanity was acquiring a nervous system.
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I taught myself how to program computers when I was a kid. And bought my first computer when I was ten and sold my first commercial program when I was 12.
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My first company was not a consumer company. It was primarily providing Internet software to media companies to enable them to go online.
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The second company, Paypal, started off, originally, as EX.com. And then about a year after that the company merged with another company called Confinity.
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Whenever we demonstrated the system to people, they wouldn’t get excited about the aggregation of financial services. But they got really wowed by the fact that you could e-mail to somebody. And we were, like, ‘Wow, okay, that’s the easy part.’ But we started focusing on that.
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Initially the company was known as EX.com. And then we used PayPal as the consumer brand. And then about a year after the merge, we changed the company’s name from EX.com to PayPal to match the name of the product.
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You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?’
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We figured out a way to authenticate bank accounts. So normally it’s really hard to authenticate bank accounts from the standpoint of pulling money from someone’s bank account ‘cause you can give us a bank account number.
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We figured out how to authenticate a bank account without anyone even seeing you.
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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.
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