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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
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
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
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 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
There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.
— Elon Musk
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
— Elon Musk
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
— 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
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
— Elon Musk
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
— 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
I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
— 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
Tesla is becoming a real car company.
— 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
You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be ... better.
— 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 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
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
— 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
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
— 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
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
— 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
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
— 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
Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
— 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
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
— 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 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
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
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
He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. It's Elon's world, and the rest of us live in it.
— Ashlee Vance
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
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
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
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 would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
— Elon Musk