Elon Musk Quotes
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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.
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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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I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.
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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
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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.
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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
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I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.
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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 most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.
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I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
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'Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.'
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I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Only by breaking through to new paradigms of space travel will more than a handful of us ever get to Mars and make it a potentially livable place.
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Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.
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Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
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A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
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I think South Africa is a great country.