Elon Musk Quotes
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
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The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.
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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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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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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
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I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.
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My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
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If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportation infrastructure for humanity becoming a multi- planet species - which I think is a very, very important objective - then I would consider the mission of SpaceX successful, at that point.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.