Elon Musk Quotes

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

"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"Life is too short for long-term grudges."

"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."

"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."

"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out."

"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."

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

"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."

"I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good."

"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy."

"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 think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."

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

"It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable."

"I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy."

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

"Great companies are built on great products."

"I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me."

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

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

"To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world."

"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure."

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

"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?'"

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

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

"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."