Elon Musk Quotes
"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.""For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.""If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.""My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.""The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.""Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.""I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.""In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were like a cell communicating by diffusion, now we are like a multicellular organism with a nervous system. This is an unprecedented good.""There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.""The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.""If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not. ""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.""I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.""The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.""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.""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.""With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.""The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.""Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.""Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy."