Elon Musk is a founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.
In addition, Musk also co-founded Paypal and sold it to Ebay for US$ 1,5 billion in 2002.
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate and became the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of around US$285 billion. Because of those extraordinary achievements, Elon Musk is likened to Iron Man in real life.
So, let’s check the top 30 Elon Musk quotes about life and the future to inspire you to keep going until you achieve a huge goal and become successful.
BEST ELON MUSK QUOTES ABOUT LIFE AND THE FUTURE
- “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.”
- “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
- “They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”
- “Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”
- “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
- “I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.”
- “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”
- “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
- “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”
- “The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
- “If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do… If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed… No task is too menial.”
- “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.”
- “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”
- “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
- “You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.”
- “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”
- “Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.”
- “When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength–400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
- “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
- “Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”
- “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”
- “My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
- “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.”
- “People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”
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