Elon Musk Quotes

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

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.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Moral condemnation used not for morality, but as a weapon for manipulation is messed up

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.