Quotes by Elon Musk

About Elon Musk:

Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born, American business magnate, entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity.
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I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Elon Musk

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

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It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three...

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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

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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 myse...

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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually ...

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

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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of...

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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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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.

Elon Musk

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

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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

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If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

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I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

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Author Bio

  • NameElon Musk
  • Descriptionentrepreneur and inventor from South Africa
  • AliasesElon Reeve Musk; Musk; Elon R. Musk
  • BornJune 28, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America; South Africa
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Business Magnate; Aerospace Engineer; Engineer; Inventor; Businessperson