Read the Inspiring and famous Elon Musk quotes that will change your life forever. Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Explore the inspiring and famous Elon Musk Quotes given below.
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1) ”When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
2) ”I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.”
3) ”If something has to be designed and invented, and you have to figure out how to ensure that the value of the thing you create is greater than the cost of the inputs, then that is probably my core skill.
4) ”Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.”
5) ”As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.”
6) ”Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.”
7) ”I think the best way to attract venture capital is to try and come up with a demonstration of whatever product or service it is and ideally take that as far as you can. Just see if you can sell that to real customers and start generating some momentum. The further along you can get with that, the more likely you are to get funding.”
8) ”It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable.”
9) ”I would just question things… It would infuriate my parents… That I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something because I would ask them why. And then I would consider whether that response made sense given everything else I knew.
10) ”When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
11) ”It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree ,make sure you understand the fundamental principles, That is the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
12) ”You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”
13) ”You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.”
14) ”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.”
15) ”It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
16) ”I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”
17) ”Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”
18) ”No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”
19) ”I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
20) ”If you need inspiration, don’t do it.”
21) ”The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.”
22) ”Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
23) ”The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
24) ”I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”
25) ”In terms of the Internet, it’s like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It’s a hugely impactful thing.
26) ”I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”
27) ”One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”
28) ”Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”
29) ”If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilization. That’s the next step.”
30) ”When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength–400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
31) ”One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”
32) ”I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.
33) ”They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”
34) ”Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”
35) ”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.”
36) ”I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
37) ”If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn’t fair to blame hell.”
38) ”The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
39) ”I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.”
40) ”I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.”
41) ”Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future.”
42) ”I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents.”
43) ”If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”
44) ”If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”
45) ”My children didn’t choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything”
46) ”Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed.”
47) ”America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.”
48) ”Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.”
49) ”If something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favor.”
50) ”Whatever area that you get into, given that, even if you’re the best of the best, there’s always a chance of failure. So, I think it’s important that you really like whatever you’re doing. If you don’t like it, life is too short. And also, if you like what you are doing, you think about it even when you are not working. It’s something your mind drawn to. And if you don’t like it, you just really can’t make it work I think.”
51) ”When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say.”
52) ”If something is important enough, you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.”
53) ”If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly and the innovation you will get will be very incrementalist. Nobody’s going to try anything bold for fear of getting fired or punished in some way. The risk/reward must be balanced, in favor of making bold moves.”
54) ”When something is important enough you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.”
55) ”Working hard to make useful products & services for your fellow humans is deeply morally good.”
56) ”Education is basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain.
57) ”Never chase the next hot thing. Stop trying to chase the wave. You will never catch it. You always for the most part find out about that stuff too late. Instead, do what you are really passionate about, what you really love. That will position you before the wave even hits, and you will find out about whatever it is before the wave starts, before it gets hot, and that is how you take advantage.”
58) ”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?”
59) ”I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
60) ”When something is important enough. you do it. even if the odds are not in your favor.”
61) ”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.”
