Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal and created SpaceX, launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first significant investors in. Not just that, he is the CEO of the well-known electric car company Tesla which aims to make the impossible to possible.
As of Sept’20, his net worth was estimated by Forbes to be US$93.3 billion, making him the 5th richest person in the world.
Let’s read his quotes that can inspire and motivate you to achieve everything in your daily life.
Elon Musk Quotes
1 – 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. – Elon Musk
2 – 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. – Elon Musk
3 – Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done. – Elon Musk
4 – I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email. – Elon Musk
5 – The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation. – Elon Musk
6 – 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. – Elon Musk
7 – I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. – Elon Musk
8 – The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. – Elon Musk
9 – It’s not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it’s a better idea to find alternatives sooner than wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, but God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. – Elon Musk
10 – We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy. – Elon Musk
11 – When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour. – Elon Musk Quotes
12 – There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies. – Elon Musk
13 – On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‘space cheese.’ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python. – Elon Musk
14 – I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight. – Elon Musk
15 – I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good. – Elon Musk
16 – I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool. – Elon Musk
17 – Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
18 – Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. – Elon Musk Quotes
19 – The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale. – Elon Musk
20 – Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. – Elon Musk
21 – I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful. – Elon Musk
22 – I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake. – Elon Musk
23 – It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor. – Elon Musk
24 – Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one has a high pain threshold. – Elon Musk
25 – Winning ‘Motor Trend’ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry. – Elon Musk
25 out of 50 Elon Musk Quotes
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26 – I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia. – Elon Musk
27 – Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are. – Elon Musk
28 – When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone. – Elon Musk
29 – I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company. – Elon Musk
30 – I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company. – Elon Musk
31 – 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. – Elon Musk
32 – If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy. – Elon Musk
33 – The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s saviour. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad. – Elon Musk
34 – When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. – Elon Musk
35 – 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. – Elon Musk
36 – In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization. – Elon Musk
37 – If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if you – the probable outcome is a failure. – Elon Musk
38 – With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out. – Elon Musk
39 – I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. – Elon Musk
40 – We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe. – Elon Musk
41 – I do think there should be some regulations on AI. – Elon Musk
42 – A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. – Elon Musk
43 – Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. – Elon Musk
44 – Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius. – Elon Musk
45 – It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable. – Elon Musk
46 – We are the first species capable of self-annihilation. – Elon Musk
47 – My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there. – Elon Musk
48 – You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. – Elon Musk
49 – I’ve actually not read any books on time management. – Elon Musk
50 – We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow. – Elon Musk
