Elon Musk Quotes.

Great collection of Elon Musk quotes. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, an amazing innovator and is constantly improving whatever he does. These Elon Musk quotes are a great way to quickly get advice from one of the top minds of our time.

“People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.” ~Elon Musk.

“Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.” ~Elon Musk.

“I’m a big believer that a small number of exceptional people who are highly motivated can do better than a large number of people who are pretty good and moderately motivated.” ~Elon Musk

“I could either watch it happen or be part of it.” ~Elon Musk.

“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.” ~Elon Musk.

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~Elon Musk.

“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. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” ~ Elon Musk.

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” ~Elon Musk.

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favorite books. It’s a book on philosophy disguised as a book on humor. And I would say that forms the basis of my philosophy.” ~Elon Musk

“Pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.” ~Elon Musk.

“If you’re trying to create a company. It’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredient in the right proportion.” ~Elon Musk.

“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.” ~Elon Musk.

“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.” ~ Elon Musk

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” ~Elon Musk.

“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.” ~Elon Musk

“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.” ~Elon Musk,

“There are only a handful of really big milestones: single-celled life, multicellular life, differentiation of plants and animals, life extending from the oceans to land, mammals, consciousness. On that scale, the next important step is obvious: making life multiplanetary.” ~Elon Musk

“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. Keep questioning yourself.” ~Elon Musk.

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast — it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.” ~Elon Musk

“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.” ~Elon Musk.

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” ~Elon Musk.

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.” ~Elon Musk.

“I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.” ~Elon Musk.

“This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks.” ~Elon Musk

“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.” ~Elon Musk.

“It would certainly be accurate to say that I did not have a good childhood.” ~Elon Musk

“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” ~Elon Musk

“Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.” ~Elon Musk.

“Ever since I was a kid, if I start to think about something hard, then all of my sensory systems turn off. I can’t see or hear or anything. I’m using my brain to compute, not for incoming information.” ~Elon Musk

“There is some chance that is above zero that AI will kill us all. I think it’s low. But if there’s some chance, I think we should also consider the fragility of human civilization.” ~Elon Musk

“For a number of years, there was no respite. You get chased around by gangs at school who tried to beat the shit out of me, and then I’d come home, and it would just be awful there as well. It was just like nonstop horrible.” ~Elon Musk

“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.” ~Elon Musk.