“Give people their freedom back!”

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!

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

People assume that actors working in films won’t have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I’m free, I watch a play.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.