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)
The reality is that in order to keep people on the job, you have to make sure that they feel like they are on a mission.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the product or service.
If you want to change the future, you have to create it.
The path to the CEO's office should be through engineering and design, not marketing or finance.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.
The value of a company is the sum of the value of its parts, but you have to be careful about how you value those parts.
Competition is for losers.
I would rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
The future is going to be weirder than anything we can imagine now.
Making rockets is hard, but not that hard.
Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation.
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?
I think we have a deep-seated need to understand why we're here.
If you aren't contributing to the world, then get out of the way.
Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy.
SpaceX was founded to accelerate human space exploration.
Neuralink will enable humans to merge with AI.
The Boring Company is about making tunneling faster and cheaper.
Twitter is the digital town square.