Quotes Elon Musk
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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.
“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
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“I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or really incapacitated.”
I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
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.
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
If you go back 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.
I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
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Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
