26 Elon Musk Quotes That Will Uplift and Inspire
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Elon Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American businessman, inventor, and investor who has a net worth of $50 billion.
Musk’s first company, Zip2 Corporation, was an online city guide. In 1999 a division of Compaq Computer bought Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options. Also in 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services/payments company. An X.com acquisition the following year led to the creation of PayPal, as it is known today, and in 2002 PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock.
Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), in 2002 with the intention of building spacecraft for commercial space travel. By 2008, SpaceX was well-established and NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International Space Station — with plans for astronaut transport in the future. Next was Tesla Motors, an automobile company dedicated to producing affordable, mass-market electric cars, which Musk co-founded in 2003.
In the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, the author captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. (Get the audiobook for free.)
Elon Musk Quotes
Here are the most powerful success lessons from Elon Musk quotes:
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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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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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
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Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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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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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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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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No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated
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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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I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
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There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy
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The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
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One should try to make the world a better place because the inverse makes no sense.
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I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
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Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it.
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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 need inspiring words, don’t do it.
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You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
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It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
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Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
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You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
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If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn’t fair to blame hell.
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