Best Elon Musk Quotes
Elon Musk Quotes About Success, Education, Parents, Child, Electric Cars, Future, Love, Meetings & Technology! Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a Businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX and an active backer, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., the owner of The Boring Company, and a co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.
Before going to Canada at 17, he temporarily attended Pretoria College. Queen’s University was the first institution he heard of, and he then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics physics. He traveled to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but instead chose to pursue a profession in Business Company, co-founding the internet software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. Compaq acquired it in 1999 for a total of $307.6 million. Musk co-founded internet-banking X.com in the same year and joined Confinity to become PayPal. In 2002, eBay took over the business for $1.5 billion.
As CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, which he established in 2002, Musk serves as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist. Elon Musk became CEO of electric vehicle maker ‘Tesla Motors Inc.’ (now Tesla, Inc.) after joining in 2004 as chairman of the board and product architect.
Unconventional and unscientific positions and famous controversial utterances have been charged against Elon Musk. He was imposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2018 for falsely claiming that he had obtained funds for a private acquisition of Tesla. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes real-time billionaire’s list, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the universe.
Best Elon Musk Quotes
1. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk
2. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
3. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk
4. “Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” – Elon Musk
5. “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then – probability will occur.” – Elon Musk
6. “For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.” – Elon Musk
7. “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” – Elon Musk
8. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” – Elon Musk
9. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.” – Elon Musk
10. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk
11. “You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.” – Elon Musk
12. “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
13. “(Physics is) a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.” – Elon Musk
14. “I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” – Elon Musk
15. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.” – Elon Musk
16. “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.” – Elon Musk
17. “You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.” – Elon Musk
18. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.” – Elon Musk
19. “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.” – Elon Musk
20. “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.” – Elon Musk
21. “My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.” – Elon Musk
22. “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.” – Elon Musk
23. “You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.” – Elon Musk
24. “I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.” – Elon Musk
25. “The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.” – Elon Musk
26. “Going from PayPal, I thought: ‘Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?’ Not from the perspective, ‘What’s the best way to make money?” – Elon Musk
27. “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?’” – Elon Musk
28. “Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? And if the future’s not including being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, it’s incredibly depressing if that’s not the future we’re going to have.” – Elon Musk
29. “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.” – Elon Musk
30. “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.” – Elon Musk
