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It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work. — Elon Musk

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. — Elon Musk

Physics is a good framework for thinking ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. — Elon Musk

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it. — Elon Musk

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed. — Elon Musk

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal. — Elon Musk

Great companies are built on great products. — Elon Musk

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. — Elon Musk

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy. — Elon Musk

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. — Elon Musk

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. — Elon Musk

Don't be afraid of new arenas. — Elon Musk

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people. — Elon Musk

I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact. — Elon Musk

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated — Elon Musk

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. — Elon Musk

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system. — Elon Musk

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. — Elon Musk

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. — Elon Musk

I think you should always be seeking negative feedback. — Elon Musk

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. — Elon Musk

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian. — Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. — Elon Musk

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. — Elon Musk

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. — Elon Musk

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time — Elon Musk

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. — Elon Musk

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. — Elon Musk

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. — Elon Musk

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration. — Elon Musk

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens. — Elon Musk

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. — Elon Musk

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. — Elon Musk

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else. — Elon Musk

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me. — Elon Musk

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell. — Elon Musk

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. — Elon Musk

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you. — Elon Musk

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. — Elon Musk

You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve — Elon Musk

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes, — Elon Musk

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. — Elon Musk

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. — Elon Musk

For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never. — Elon Musk

You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. — Elon Musk

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. — Elon Musk

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. — Elon Musk

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. — Elon Musk

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart. — Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents — Elon Musk

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. — Elon Musk

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed. — Elon Musk

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling. — Elon Musk

You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong. — Elon Musk

Life is too short for long-term grudges. — Elon Musk

Tesla is becoming a real car company. — Elon Musk

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [ ... H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling — Elon Musk

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican. — Elon Musk

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be ... better. — Elon Musk

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible. — Elon Musk

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. — Elon Musk

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better. — Elon Musk

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful. — Elon Musk

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback. — Elon Musk

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool. — Elon Musk

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. — Elon Musk

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. — Elon Musk

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term. — Elon Musk

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but [ ... ] once you do that, the rest is really easy. — Elon Musk

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system. — Elon Musk

I've actually not read any books on time management. — Elon Musk

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point. — Elon Musk

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. — Elon Musk

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. — Peter Diamandis

You want to do things you're passionate about but also are useful to other people. — Elon Musk

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right. — Elon Musk

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. — Elon Musk

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. — Elon Musk

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. — Elon Musk

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world. — Stephen Colbert

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. — Elon Musk

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business. — Elon Musk

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. — Elon Musk

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation. — Elon Musk

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. — Elon Musk

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do. — Elon Musk

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. — Elon Musk

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. — Elon Musk

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up. — Elon Musk

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. — Elon Musk