Elon Musk famous quotes

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
-- Elon Musk

#Years #Majority

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
-- Elon Musk

#Heart #Thinking #Matter

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Heart #Thinking

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Success #Crazy

Life is too short for long-term grudges.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Life Is Too Short #Long

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
-- Elon Musk

#Risk #Trying #Covering

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.
-- Elon Musk

#Needs #Humans #Species

Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's 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

#Horse #Technology #Order

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

#Mean #Odds #Years

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
-- Elon Musk

#Giving Up #Persistence #Important

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,
-- Elon Musk

#Needs #Nukes #Dangerous

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

#Views #Tree #Advice

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
-- Elon Musk

#Success #Inspiration #Thinking

Great companies are built on great products.
-- Elon Musk

#Great Company #Company

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.
-- Elon Musk

#Demon #Artificial Intelligence #Summoning

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspiring #Failing #Enough

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
-- Elon Musk

#Mean #Government #People

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Technology #Impact

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
-- Elon Musk

#People #Needs #Alternatives

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
-- Elon Musk

#Thinking #Important #Done

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
-- Elon Musk

#Land #Dollars #Mars

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
-- Elon Musk

#Mean #Years #Car

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
-- Elon Musk

#Differences #Space #Trying

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

#Inspirational #Horse #People

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
-- Elon Musk

#Creativity #Broken #Design

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

#Order #Enlightenment #Consciousness

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
-- Elon Musk

#Needs #World #Figures

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.
-- Elon Musk

#Thinking #Levels #Foolish

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Eggs #Long

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
-- Elon Musk

#Space #Fixers #Planets

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Important #Trying

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Lessons #Tough

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

#Inspirational #Morning #People

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
-- Elon Musk

#Optimism #Hell #Pessimism

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #College #World

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
-- Elon Musk

#Firsts #Steps #First Steps

Talent is extremely important. It's 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

#Sports #Team #Winning

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

#Determination #People #Innovation

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
-- Elon Musk

#Inspirational #Enlightenment #Strive