List Of 50 Elon Musk Quotes:
#1 It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.
#2 If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.
#3 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.
#4 I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
#5 It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
#6 Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
#7 Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.
#8 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.
#9 One of my core responsibilities in running companies is to have an environment where great engineers can flourish.
#10 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.
#11 No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
#12 I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
#13 You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.
#14 I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
#15 Timely truth is immensely important for the collective consciousness to function well.
#16 Civilization is careening towards dystopia/utopia.
#17 My children didn’t choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything.
#18 It is important in this often difficult and troubled world for there to be things that also inspire and make you feel great to be part of humanity.
#19 We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.
#20 Man has the power to act as his own destroyer, and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
#21 Human civilization is still a tiny startup in the grand scheme of things.
#22 When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
#23 Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.
#24 I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
#25 Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible, like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day.
#26 Pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
#27 When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
#28 People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
#29 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.
#30 Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, and engineering is about creating things that never existed.
#31 I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents.
#32 Nothing more precious than old friends.
#33 I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
#34 It is not the degree but the skill that achieves success.
#35 I don’t start fights, but I’ll finish them.
#36 Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
#37 We want to look to the future rather than the past.
#38 I have no problem being hated.
#39 Are you contributing more than you consume?
#40 Life is too short for long-term grudges.
#41 I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
#42 The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.
#43 No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder.
#44 You want your net useful output to be maximized. Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.
#45 I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
#46 We are microbes on a dust mote in a vast emptiness overwhelmingly dominated by the sun.
#47 I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
#48 Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
#49 It’s a real weakness to want to be liked.
#50 To fear parody or criticism is a sign of weakness.