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Motivational Quotes By Elon Musk
- I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
- 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.
- I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
- I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
- 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.
- 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.
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I though would have a significant impact on the world.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- 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.
- People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.
- Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
- 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.
- 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.
- I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
- It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable.
- We have a strict ‘no-assholes policy’ at SpaceX.
- You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
- 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.
- You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
- 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.
- 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.
- What makes innovative thinking happen?… I think it’s really a mindset. You have to decide.
- 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.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- 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.
- 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.
Inspirational Quotes From Elon Musk
- I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
- There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
- It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
- 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.
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
- 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?
- 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.
- Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
- 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.
- Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
- 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.
- A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
- 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.
- 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.
