Elon Musk is known for his thought-provoking and often inspirational quotes. Here are 50 quotes attributed to Elon Musk:
1. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
2. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
3. "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
4. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
5. "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
6. "I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
7. "Great companies are built on great products."
8. "I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
9. "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
10. "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."
11. "It's very important to like the people you work with; otherwise, life and your job is gonna be quite miserable."
12. "I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems."
13. "Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
14. "If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."
15. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
16. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
17. "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."
18. "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."
19. "My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
20. "You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better."
21. "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
22. "It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
23. "I don't believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that 'it's all about the process,' I see that as a bad sign."
24. "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."
25. "I do think of him [Thomas Edison] as a bit of a role model. Like Edison, Musk is not afraid to take risks and try new things in order to achieve his goals."
26. "If you're going to create a company, it's important to limit the number of miracles in one product."
27. "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 challenges."
28. "The longer you wait to fire someone, the longer it has been since you should have fired them."
29. "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."
30. "Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
31. "There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
32. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
33. "I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
34. "It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive."
35. "Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell."
36. "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."
37. "I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
38. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
39. "If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial."
40. "It's definitely true that the space around Earth is getting more and more polluted. But that's happening because humanity is going out there more and more, and putting up more and more satellites."
41. "If you're looking for a great opportunity, I advise you to consider something in the direction of space."
42. "I would like to fly in space. Absolutely! That would be cool. I used to just watch the rocket launches going to orbit and I would daydream about what it would be like to be on that rocket, going to orbit. I'd love to do that."
43. "I've actually not read any books on time management."
44. "I think the high-level strategy of Tesla is to be where the action is."
45. "I would like to be on the beach on the weekends and on Mars the rest of the time."
46. "I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
47. "If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
48. "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
49. "If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the saplings, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along."
50. "I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved."
Elon Musk has shared various perspectives on money and financial success. Here are some quotes attributed to him on the subject of money:
1. "I'm not a money-focused person. I don't think I would want to be, really."
2. "I think that's the problem. What does a person do after getting rich? What then? ... The goal shouldn't be 'I want to be rich.' The goal should be 'I want to do something. I want to make something happen.'"
3. "Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
4. "I'm not trying to optimize for money; it's not my motivation. It's not what I'm trying to achieve."
5. "I do think that a good framework for thinking is physics—boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there."
6. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
7. "I think money is not inherently good, and there's no shortage of it. It's just that money is a means to an end. If the destination is important, then the money pretty much has to be spent."
8. "I want to be able to do things. I want to be able to make a difference."
9. "You should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side."
10. "It's very important to like the people you work with; otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable."
11. "Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell."
12. "The value of money is to use it to change the world and see that it's not going to happen, then use the money to have a good time. At least, that way, some good came out of it."
13. "I think that 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."
Elon Musk has shared various thoughts on education, emphasizing the importance of learning, innovation, and practical skills. Here are some quotes attributed to him on the topic of education:
1. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
2. "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."
3. "It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers."
4. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
5. "The more you learn, the more you find out you don't know. It's sort of like an expanding frontier of ignorance."
6. "I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved."
7. "You don't need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning."
8. "You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends."
9. "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."
10. "I think that's the main value of a college education... I'm not sure it's the best investment."
11. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
12. "I really think that a university education is basically for form. It shouldn't be that hard to get the knowledge elsewhere."
13. "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."
14. "I do think there is a lot of potential in technologies that provide people with better feedback on how they're using energy in their homes."
15. "A physics teacher would make you learn Newton’s laws, but not tell you why he bothered to make them up."
Elon Musk has shared motivational and insightful advice that can be particularly inspiring for students. Here are some Elon Musk quotes that students may find encouraging:
1. "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."
2. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
3. "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."
4. "You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better."
5. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
6. "Don't confuse education with schooling. I didn't go to Harvard, but people who work for me did."
7. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
8. "I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
9. "If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."
10. "You don't need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning."
11. "I really think that a university education is basically for form. It shouldn't be that hard to get the knowledge elsewhere."
12. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
13. "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."
14. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
15. "There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
Elon Musk has shared insights on the concept of time, often emphasizing its value and the importance of efficiency. Here are some Elon Musk quotes related to time:
1. "Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
2. "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."
3. "I've actually not read any books on time management."
4. "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."
5. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
6. "If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial."
7. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
8. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
9. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
10. "The longer you wait to fire someone, the longer it has been since you should have fired them."
11. "Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
12. "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."
13. "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
14. "I would like to be on the beach on the weekends and on Mars the rest of the time."
15. "My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
Elon Musk has shared insights on success throughout his career. Here are some Elon Musk quotes related to success:
1. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
2. "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."
3. "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
4. "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
5. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
6. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
7. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
8. "It is remarkable how many things you can explode. I’m lucky I have all my fingers."
9. "I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
10. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
11. "If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."
12. "Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
13. "I would like to be remembered as someone who did the right thing."
14. "I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
15. "I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
16. "Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell."
17. "It's definitely true that the space around Earth is getting more and more polluted. But that's happening because humanity is going out there more and more, and putting up more and more satellites."
18. "I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved."
19. "If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial."
20. "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
Elon Musk often shares his visionary thoughts on the future, especially concerning technology, space exploration, and sustainability. Here are some Elon Musk quotes about the future:
1. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
2. "I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
3. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
4. "I would like to fly in space. Absolutely! That would be cool. I used to just watch the rocket launches going to orbit and I would daydream about what it would be like to be on that rocket, going to orbit. I'd love to do that."
5. "I think the high-level strategy of Tesla is to be where the action is."
6. "The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question."
7. "I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
8. "It's definitely true that the space around Earth is getting more and more polluted. But that's happening because humanity is going out there more and more, and putting up more and more satellites."
9. "I would like to be on the beach on the weekends and on Mars the rest of the time."
10. "I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
11. "If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
12. "If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the saplings, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along."
13. "I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved."
14. "It's important to rev the engine and sometimes take some risks."
15. "Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
Humor is one of the great joys of life!
हास्य जीवन की महान खुशियों में से एक है!
"The universe theory excludes the lore of karma"
"ब्रह्मांड सिद्धांत कर्म की विद्या को बाहर करता है"
"People think I'm hyperintelligent"
"लोग सोचते हैं कि मैं अति बुद्धिमान हूँ"
Tomorrow will be the first sunrise of the rest of your life – make it what you want
कल आपके शेष जीवन का पहला सूर्योदय होगा - इसे आप जो चाहें बना लें
When thinking about deep time, what is more astounding is to think about how much time is ahead!
जब गहरे समय के बारे में सोचते हैं, तो यह सोचना अधिक आश्चर्यजनक होता है कि आगे कितना समय है!
Great potential to lift people out of poverty. Providing Internet is teaching people to fish.
लोगों को गरीबी से बाहर निकालने की अपार संभावनाएं। इंटरनेट प्रदान करना लोगों को मछली पकड़ना सिखा रहा है।
Use of the word “billionaire” as a pejorative is morally wrong & dumb 😛
"अरबपति" शब्द का प्रयोग एक अपमानजनक के रूप में नैतिक रूप से गलत और गूंगा है
If the reason for it is building products that make millions of people happy.
If the reason for it is building products that make millions of people happy