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)
Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.
I came to America with nothing, and now I'm a billionaire. Dream big.
Don't let success go to your head or failure to your heart.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Engineering is the closest thing to magic that we have.
If you build a great experience, customers will tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I’m trying to do everything I can to make sure that humanity has a good future.
The point of all this is to make sure that we don't go extinct.
AI is far more dangerous than nukes.
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
I think the pace of AI development is going to be much faster than most people realize.
Sustainable energy is the future, and Tesla is leading the charge.
Reusability is the key to making space travel affordable.
If something is important enough, you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.
When something is important enough, you do it even if all the odds are not in your favor.
Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.
We're going to make sure that we have a future that is inspiring and exciting.
I think that's the single biggest piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in SolarCity. I had to borrow money for rent.
The value of a company is the sum of the cash flows from now until the final judgment day, discounted to the present.