Elon Musk introduction:
Elon Musk is a visionary entrepreneur, inventor, and trailblazer who has revolutionized the fabric of modern industry and innovation. He was a legend. Musk has spearheaded some of the most groundbreaking ventures of our time, from the electric cars of Tesla to the reusable rockets of Space X.
His unbridled ambition and unyielding commitment to shaping the future have made him a global icon, inspiring countless individuals to think outside the box, challenge conventional wisdom, and strive for a better tomorrow."
Here are some quotes from Elon Musk :
- “Never give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated. For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”
- “If somebody is doing something that is useful to the rest of society, I think that’s a good thing. It doesn’t have to change the world. If you make something that has high value to people, and frankly even if it’s a little game or, you know, some improvement in photo-sharing — if it has a small amount of good for a large number of people, I think that’s fine.”
- “I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. One bit of advice: It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details, or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
- “Somebody could say — and in fact people do — that battery packs are really expensive, and that’s just the way they will always be, because that’s the way they have been in the past. Well, no, that’s pretty dumb. Because if you applied that reasoning to anything new, then you wouldn’t be able to ever get to that new thing.”
- “It’s very important to actively seek out and listen very carefully to negative feedback. This is something that people tend to avoid because it’s painful, but I think this is a very common mistake. To not actively seek out and listen to negative feedback.”
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
- "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
- "I think it's important to have a good feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you can do it better."
- "When something's important enough, you do it even if the odds are against you."
- "The most important thing is to have a clear goal and to be working towards it. And to be willing to take risks and to be willing to learn from your mistakes."
- "I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
- "You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
- "The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity."
- "I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. It's better to plan to make a company successful."
- "When something's important enough, you do it even if the odds are against you."
- "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
- "There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
- "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."
- "People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
- "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."
- "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
- "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."
- "The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S."
- "Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do."
- “I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.”
- “Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”
- “Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.”
- “I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.”
- “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.”
If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.”
- “SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.”
- “The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”
- “I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'”
- “Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.”
- “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.”
- “Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.”
- “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”
- “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.”
- “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
- “The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.”
- “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.”
- “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.”
- “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.”
- “Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time.”
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