Quotes by Elon Musk

“ Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors. ”

“ One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do. ”

“ Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years. ”

“ I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong. ”

“ Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. ”

“ Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. ”

“ One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur. ”