Elon Musk, a contemporary visionary with a heart of boundless innovation, breathes life into dreams that shape our tomorrow. Born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk's brilliance spans realms from sustainable energy to space odysseys.
His resolute spirit enkindles hope, reminding us that even the stars are within reach. In Musk's journey, we glimpse the warmth of possibility and the radiant power of human ingenuity.
Elon Musk Quotes on Business & Success
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
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Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time.
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Great companies are built on great products.
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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.
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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
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It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
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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.
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The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.
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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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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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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.
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We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people that are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.
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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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Elon Musk Quotes on Life and Inspiration
If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
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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.
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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.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
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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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Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.
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Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
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I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world ... People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve.
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And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.
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Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself.
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That's my lesson for taking a vacation: Vacation will kill you.
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An asteroid or a super volcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
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If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.
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If you need inspiring words, don't do it.
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Take risks now. Do something bold. You won't regret it.
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The thing that drives me is that I want to be able to think about the future and feel good about that.
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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Elon Musk Quotes on Funny
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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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.
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Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy.
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I would only call someone an idiot if people were mistakenly under the impression that the person was smart.
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I would like to die on Mars — just not on impact.
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If there’s ever a scandal about me, please call it Elongate.
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I put the art in fart.
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For the chemistry nerds: “Technically, alcohol is a solution.
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When asked why so many of the SpaceX rocket launches happen at night: “It’s much easier to do the CGI that way.
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We can’t be one of those lame one-planet civilizations!
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Elon Musk Quotes on Space
Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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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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Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
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I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future.
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To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet--Mars in particular--but we're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.
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You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
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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.
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Elon Musk Quotes on the Future
What we are aspiring to do is to help make humanity a true space-faring civilization and ultimately become a multi-planet species.
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The future will be weird.
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Over time, I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
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Real issue will be an aging & declining world population by 2050, not overpopulation.
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All orgs developing advanced AI should be regulated, including Tesla.
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We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.
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We should be much more worried about population collapse.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we are space-bearing civilization.
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