"America is the spirit of human exploration distilled."
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur known for founding Tesla and SpaceX, revolutionizing electric vehicles and space travel.
- Born
- June 28, 1971
- Quotes
- 217
- Rank
- #303
Quote collection
Elon Musk quotes (page 5 of 11)
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"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."
"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."
"It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience."
"Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."
"Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating."
"I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
"I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy."
"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
"You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people."
"Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'"
"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
"Humans need to be a multiplanet species."
"To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world."
"Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business."
"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon."
"Don't be afraid of new arenas."
"No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated"
"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."