Elon Musk Quotes
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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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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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Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.
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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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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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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.
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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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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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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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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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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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My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
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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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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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You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
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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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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 we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
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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 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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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.