Elon Musk Quotes

“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.”

“I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”

“I've actually not read any books on time management.”

“I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.”

“Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.”

“Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

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

“There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. 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.”

“The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.”

“If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.”

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

“I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”

“Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket: half a million dollars. It can be done.”

“America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.”

“An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw.”

“Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.”

“The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy.”

“If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy.”

“I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. They need to keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars.”

“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.”

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.”

“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.”

“The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated. But I'm not trying to be anyone's saviour. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”

“Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics.”

“I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.”