Elon Musk on Confidence Quotes

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

"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."

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."

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

"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems."

"If you are trying to solve a problem, you have to be confident that the physics allows it."

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

"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?"

"You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it."

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

"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."

"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."

"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."

"What makes innovative thinking happen? I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide."

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

"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do."

"My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality."

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

"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."

"Great companies are built on great products."

"You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."

"I would rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."

"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time."

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be better."

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."

"You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable."

"Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we’re going to make it happen."

"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office. It needs to be through engineering and design."

"I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."