“If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.”

Run a physics sim long enough & you’ll get intelligence.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

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 started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

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

Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!

Great companies are built on great products.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

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

Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!

Great companies are built on great products.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

As a child I would just question things.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door – if we seek it.

Keep the same energy for joy that you pour into your disappointment.

What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapoint­ments.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

She goes on. Despite the fears, struggles, obstacles and disappointments. She lives for love of self, love of life, and maybe one day for the love of someone else.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.