Elon Musk Quotes

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Elon Musk

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 28, 1971

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Elon Musk

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Elon Musk

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

Elon Musk

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

Elon Musk

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

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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.

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The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

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I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Elon Musk

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

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The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

Elon Musk

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

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The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

Elon Musk

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

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I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

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