Elon Musk Quotes
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
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A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
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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 myself.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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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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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 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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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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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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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.
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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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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
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I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
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It doesn’t do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. And besides this, my interest is how do we enable many other people to go to space, not necessarily me, personally.
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For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
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Great companies are built on great products.
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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.
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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
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I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.