Browse Motivational Elon Musk Quotes & Sayings on business, leadership & success. Elon Musk needs no introduction, and he is among the top 50 billionaires in the world. He is a South African-Canadian-American veteran businessman and an inventor.
He is the founder, CEO, and chief designer of SpaceX and the co-founder of Tesla Motors. Apart from this, he is the founder of many other companies.
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on 28 June 1971. His father was an engineer by profession, and his mother was a model.
His parents divorced when he was nine years old, due to which Alan started living with his dad. Besides, Elon has two younger brothers and sisters.
Elon was creative since childhood, at the age of 12 years he learned computer programming staying at home, and developed the game called Blastar in 1984.
Elon Musk founded Neuralink Corporation, an ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine, it acts as an interface that connects humans and computers.
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Below we have compiled a list of Exclusive Famous Elon Musk Quotes & Sayings for you. Apart from this, these quotes will help motivate you to do innovation work in your field.
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Elon Musk Quotes
- A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
- Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
- I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
- I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
- I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
- I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
- I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do… If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed… No task is too menial.
- It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
- It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
- My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
- There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Best Elon Musk Quotes
- Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
- I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
- I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- 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 get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
- I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
- I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
- People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.
- Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
- What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.
- 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 workweeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.
Elon Musk Famous Quotes
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.
- Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
- I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.
- I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.
- I think the best way to attract venture capital is to try and come up with a demonstration of whatever product or service it is and ideally take that as far as you can. Just see if you can sell that to real customers and start generating some momentum. The further along you can get with that, the more likely you are to get funding.
- I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- I would just question things… It would infuriate my parents… That I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something ’cause I’d ask them why. And then I’d consider whether that response made sense given everything else I knew.
- If something has to be designed and invented, and you have to figure out how to ensure that the value of the thing you create is greater than the cost of the inputs, then that is probably my core skill.
- 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.
- It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.
- We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.
- 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.
- When somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing. Very rarely, is it one little thing. It’s usually a whole bunch of things that collectively amount to a huge innovation.
- You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?’
- You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
Elon Musk Inspirational Quotes
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.
- Great companies are built on great products.
- I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
- If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not
- It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
- Optimism, pessimism, f*ck that – we’re going to make it happen.
- People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.
- Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success.
- 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 Motivational Quotes
- You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?’
- 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 workweeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.
- We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.
- There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
- Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
- It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
- 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.
Inspirational Quotes By Elon Musk
- If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do… If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed… No task is too menial.
- I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
- I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
- I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.
- Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
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Elon Musk Quotes & Sayings
- Any product that needs a manual to work is broken
- Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. Keep questioning yourself
- Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough
- Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not
- Great companies are built on great products
- I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done
- I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems
- I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better
- If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules
- If you’re a co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do… If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed… No task is too menial
- 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
- It’s ok to have your eggs in one basket, as long as you control what happens to that basket
- My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
- People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster
- Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it
- The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur
- The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor
Elon Musk Simulation Quotes
- I’ve had so many simulation discussions it’s crazy. In fact, it got to the point where every conversation we had was the AI / simulation conversation. And my brother and I finally agreed that we would ban such conversations if we were ever in a hot tub, because that really kills the magic.
- The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago we had pong, like two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and its getting better every year.
- Soon there will be virtual reality, and augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then games will become indistinguishable from reality. Even if that rate of advancement drops from a 1,000 of what it is right now, then you just say let’s imagine it’s 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing in the evolutionary scale.
- Given that we’re clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality and those games could be played on any set top box or any PC, and their would probably be billions of computer or set top boxes, it would seem to follow that the odds we are in base reality are one in billions.
- Arguably we should hope that’s true [that we’re living in a simulation]. Because otherwise if civilization stops advancing that may be due to some calamitous event that erases civilization. So maybe we should be hopeful that this is a simulation, because otherwise we are going to create civilizations that are indistinguishable form reality, or civilization will cease to exist.
- The absence of any noticeable life may be an argument in favour of us being in a simulation. Like when you’re playing an adventure game, and you can see the stars in the background, but you can’t ever get there. If it’s not a simulation, then maybe we’re in a lab and there’s some advanced alien civilisation that’s just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mould in a petri dish.
- If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.
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