Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a business industrialist, mechanical planner, and designer. He is the originator, CEO, CTO, and boss planner of SpaceX; early financial specialist, CEO, and item engineer of Tesla, Inc.; author of The Boring Company; prime supporter of Neuralink; and fellow benefactor and beginning co-director of OpenAI.
Inspirational Elon Musk Quotes:
1. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” Elon Musk
2. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” Elon Musk
3. “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.” Elon Musk
4. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk
5. “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.” Elon Musk
6. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” Elon Musk
7. “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.” Elon Musk
8. “There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.” Elon Musk
9. “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” Elon Musk
10. “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
11. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.” Elon Musk
12. “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.” Elon Musk
13. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” Elon Musk
14. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.” Elon Musk
15. “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
16. “We’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.” Elon Musk
17. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.” Elon Musk
18. “If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic-being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.” Elon Musk
19. “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” Elon Musk
20. “When somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing.” Elon Musk
21. “It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.” Elon Musk
22. “Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did” Elon Musk
23. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse” Elon Musk
24. “Great companies are built on great products” Elon Musk
25. “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not” Elon Musk