Elon Musk Quotes

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.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

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

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

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.

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.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

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

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.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

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?'

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

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

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

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

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.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

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

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

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

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

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.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

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.

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

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

As a child I would just question things.

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

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

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

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.