Elon Musk Quotes
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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?'
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If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.
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Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.
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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.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.
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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
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If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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People should be travelling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.
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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
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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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This is the chance to fulfill a dream.
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
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Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
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... I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
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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.
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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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I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
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Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.