70 Elon Musk Quotes to inspire your success

Elon Musk is renowned American entrepreneur, investor and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company and SolarCity. Here are fantastic Elon Musk quotes to inspire and motivate you.

Elon Musk Quotes

1. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” – Elon Musk

2. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk

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.” – Elon Musk

4. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk

5. “Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did“– Elon Musk

6. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.” – Elon Musk

7. “Great companies are built on great products” – Elon Musk
8. “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.” – Elon Musk
9. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk
10. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” – Elon Musk

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11. “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.” – Elon Musk
12. “Any product that needs a manual to work is broken” – Elon Musk
13. “My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world” – Elon Musk
14. “Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it” – Elon Musk
15. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse” – Elon Musk
16. “It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.” – Elon Musk
17. “If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules” – Elon Musk
18. “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.” – Elon Musk
19. “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.” – Elon Musk
20. “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not” – Elon Musk

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21. “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” – Elon Musk
22. “Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” – Elon Musk
23. “I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.” – Elon Musk
24. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.” – Elon Musk
25. “I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.” – Elon Musk
26. “Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.” – Elon Musk
27.  “We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.” – Elon Musk
28.  “I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.” – Elon Musk
29. “I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.” – Elon Musk
30. “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

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31. “I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.” – Elon Musk
32. “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.” – Elon Musk
33. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.” – Elon Musk
34. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.” – Elon Musk
35. “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” – Elon Musk
36. “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.” – Elon Musk
37. “I’ve actually not read any books on time management.” – Elon Musk
38. “I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'” – Elon Musk
39. “Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.” – Elon Musk
40. “Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. Keep questioning yourself” – Elon Musk

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41. “What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.” – Elon Musk
42. “People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.” – Elon Musk
43. “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.” – Elon Musk
44. “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.” – Elon Musk
45. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” – Elon Musk
46. “I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.” – Elon Musk
47. “I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.” – Elon Musk
48. “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
49. “When somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing. Very rarely, is it one little thing. It’s usually a whole bunch of things that collectively amount to a huge innovation.” – Elon Musk
50. “You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.” – Elon Musk

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51. “You have to say, ‘Well, why did it succeed where others did not?'” – Elon Musk
52. “I would just question things… It would infuriate my parents… That I wouldn’t just believe them when they said something ’cause I’d ask them why. And then I’d consider whether that response made sense given everything else I knew.” – Elon Musk
53. “It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is going to be quite miserable.” – Elon Musk
54. “Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.” – Elon Musk
55. “As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.” – Elon Musk
56. “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.” – Elon Musk
57. “Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re going to get fixated on a bad solution.” – Elon Musk
58. “If something has to be designed and invented, and you have to figure out how to ensure that the value of the thing you create is greater than the cost of the inputs, then that is probably my core skill.” – Elon Musk
59. “I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.” – Elon Musk
60. “There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk Quotes

61.  “Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.” – Elon Musk
62. “I think the best way to attract venture capital is to try and come up with a demonstration of whatever product or service it is and ideally take that as far as you can. Just see if you can sell that to real customers and start generating some momentum. The further along you can get with that, the more likely you are to get funding.” – Elon Musk
63. “I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future.” – Elon Musk
64. “The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.” – Elon Musk
65. “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.” – Elon Musk
66. “I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.” – Elon Musk
67. “And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can’t just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.” – Elon Musk
68. “Ancient Greece had it all & then committed suicide. Nobody digs your grave better than yourself.” – Elon Musk
69. “I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems … It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.” – Elon Musk
70. “That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: Vacation will kill you.” – Elon Musk