Elon Musk All Quotes and Sayings

Born: in Pretoria, South Africa, June 28, 1971
Twitte: elonmusk

Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-conceived Canadian-American business head honcho, architect and creator.

He is the author, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; prime supporter, CEO and item designer of Tesla Motors; fellow benefactor and director of SolarCity, co-executive of OpenAI; fellow benefactor of Zip2; and organizer of X.com which converge with PayPal of Confinity.

“Elon Musk All Quotes and Sayings”

1. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
2. “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
3. “My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in Space, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”
4. “You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”
5. “You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”
6. “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.”
7. “I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
8. “I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”
9. “Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”
10. “It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
11. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be Dead or completely incapacitated”
12. “I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
13. “If you need inspiration, don’t do it.”
14. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
15. “The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.”
16. “The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
17. “I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what Questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”
18. “Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
19. “In terms of the Internet, it’s like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It’s a hugely impactful thing.”
20. “I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”
21. “One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”
22. “Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”
23. “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
24. “One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”
25. “They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”
26. “You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraforming Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.”
27. “Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.  ”
28. “I could go and buy one of the islands In the, Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.”
29. “The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
30. “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
31. “When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength–400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
32. “I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad”
33. “I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.”
34. “If something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favor.”
35. “When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say.”
36. “If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn’t fair to blame hell.”
37. “I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future”
38. “If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”
39. “America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.”
40. “Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future.”
41. “I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents”
42. “Education is basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain.”
43. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
44. “If something is important enough, you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.”
45. “I mean, I think that if people are concerned about volatility, they should definitely not buy our stock. I’m not here [on an earnings call] to convince you to buy [Tesla] stock. Do not buy it if volatility is scary. There you go.”
46. “When something is important enough you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.”
47. “Buy & hold stock in companies where you love the product roadmap, sell where you don’t.”11/18/2020”
48. “Pronouns suck.”
49. “Whatever area that you get into, given that, even if you’re the best of the best, there’s always a chance of failure. So, I think it’s important that you really like whatever you’re doing. If you don’t like it, life is too short. And also, if you like what you are doing, you think about it even when you are not working. It’s something your mind drawn to. And if you don’t like it, you just really can’t make it work I think.”
50. “The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.”
51. “I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
52. “When something is important enough. You do it. Even if the odds are not in your favor.”
53. “Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication […] No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.”
54. “Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed”
55. “I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the Cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”
56. “I want to die on Mars…just not on impact.”
57. “I want to die on Mars, just not on impact.”
58. “One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy”

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