Elon Musk Quotes

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Elon Musk

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 28, 1971

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

Elon Musk

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Elon Musk

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Elon Musk

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

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Great companies are built on great products.

Elon Musk

If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

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If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

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

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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Elon Musk

If you go 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.

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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

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I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

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If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

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As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

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I've actually not read any books on time management.

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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

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

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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.

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