Elon Musk
A visionary engineer and entrepreneur who founded SpaceX, co-founded Tesla, Inc., and has made significant contributions to electric vehicles and space exploration.
Most quoted
"If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would be considered magic—being able to talk to people instantly across vast distances, to see pictures and hear sounds from anywhere, to fly, to access immense amounts of information from a small device. These are things that would have been considered magic a short time ago."
— from TED Talk, 2017
"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."
— from TED Talk
"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. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
— from Interview with Kevin Rose, 2013
All quotes by Elon Musk (280)
I think we're going to see a lot of positive changes.
I think it's important to be open-minded.
I think the future is going to be a better place.
I think it's important to be courageous.
I think we're going to see a lot of progress in the world.
I think it's important to be determined.
I think the future is going to be bright.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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.
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.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
We're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
I think it is a good idea to have a future that is inspiring and appealing. I just think that there have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
What makes innovative thinking happen? I think it's really a mindset. You have to decide.
I think it's possible to make a very safe car. The goal is to be better than a person. The car will never be perfect, but it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than a human.
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.