Elon Musk Quotes

"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 goal is to be useful, to do things that are a net good for the rest of humanity."

"When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world."

"Profit is not the goal, it's the result of doing things right."

"My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world."

"I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying."

"I don't spend my time high-leveling concepts. I spend my time on engineering and manufacturing problems."

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it."

"I don't think it's a good idea to have a lot of money sitting in a bank account. It should be deployed into things that are productive."

"Money is just a tool. It's not the end goal."

"Acceleration of the transition to sustainable energy is what matters."

"Possessions just weigh you down. And they're kind of an attack vector. People say, 'Hey, billionaire, you got all this stuff.' Well, now I don't have the stuff—now what are you going to do?"

"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."

"You need to be in a position where you're doing something that you're passionate about."

"Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive."

"If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take 30 days. But if you give yourself 3 hours, it will take 3 hours."

"The most important thing is to make sure that the company is moving in the right direction."

"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."

"Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold."

"Work is much more fun if you are working towards a meaningful goal."

"I think it’s very important to support the people you work with and believe in them."

"I think it's important to be able to fail. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."

"A common mistake is to simplify the product, but not the factory."

"If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all the tasks that you might not want to do... No task is too menial."

"I don't really care about wealth. I care about the future of humanity."

"It's okay to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"Constantly seek criticism. A well-thought-out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold."

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. If you're not passionate, you will fail."

"Automate only after the process is simplified and the parts are deleted."

"The value of a company is the sum of its future cash flows discounted to the present."

"The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation."

"You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse."