People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much...
ELON MUSK I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or st...
ELON MUSK I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and...
ELON MUSK I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission...
ELON MUSK SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating...
ELON MUSK The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are ma...
ELON MUSK I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be...
ELON MUSK Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
ELON MUSK If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
ELON MUSK In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably...
ELON MUSK If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-fo...
ELON MUSK I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the...
ELON MUSK I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark f...
ELON MUSK I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovati...
ELON MUSK If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Sh...
ELON MUSK Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or ...
ELON MUSK Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it...
ELON MUSK It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most effici...
ELON MUSK The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 1...
ELON MUSK There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you kn...
ELON MUSK There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend mo...
ELON MUSK Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car...
ELON MUSK Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crop...
ELON MUSK The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quit...
ELON MUSK We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. Th...
ELON MUSK With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing canno...
ELON MUSK What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make spa...
ELON MUSK We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do y...
ELON MUSK From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light j...
ELON MUSK The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever ...
ELON MUSK I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driv...
ELON MUSK Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
ELON MUSK Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydroca...
ELON MUSK Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives...
ELON MUSK It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it wo...
ELON MUSK The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great...
ELON MUSK Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intell...
ELON MUSK Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddle...
ELON MUSK Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum me...
ELON MUSK My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-...
ELON MUSK The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
ELON MUSK Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
ELON MUSK Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se...
ELON MUSK Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly open...
ELON MUSK America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
ELON MUSK I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing ...
ELON MUSK You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
ELON MUSK I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky thi...
ELON MUSK You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the co...
ELON MUSK I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.
ELON MUSK There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the...
ELON MUSK Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support ...
ELON MUSK I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was ...
ELON MUSK As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
ELON MUSK I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a ...
ELON MUSK If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
ELON MUSK I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon V...
ELON MUSK For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have b...
ELON MUSK My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering enviro...
ELON MUSK You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...
ELON MUSK SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled....
ELON MUSK If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a ver...
ELON MUSK If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, an...
ELON MUSK The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be th...
ELON MUSK In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're...
ELON MUSK So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt ho...
ELON MUSK Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when custom...
ELON MUSK It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than...
ELON MUSK I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
ELON MUSK If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical soluti...
ELON MUSK I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be bro...
ELON MUSK I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
ELON MUSK If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
ELON MUSK I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the...
ELON MUSK I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
ELON MUSK I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I...
ELON MUSK Tesla is becoming a real car company.
ELON MUSK Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by ...
ELON MUSK I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
ELON MUSK In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
ELON MUSK A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people ...
ELON MUSK If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's al...
ELON MUSK Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
ELON MUSK I've actually not read any books on time management.
ELON MUSK Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. T...
ELON MUSK Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you ne...
ELON MUSK If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I...
ELON MUSK The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I&...
ELON MUSK I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
ELON MUSK Life is too short for long-term grudges.
ELON MUSK If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
ELON MUSK I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because i...
ELON MUSK It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a...
ELON MUSK I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineeri...
ELON MUSK Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
ELON MUSK Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
ELON MUSK It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four...
ELON MUSK I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.
ELON MUSK I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
ELON MUSK The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become mult...
ELON MUSK I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
ELON MUSK I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something ...
ELON MUSK I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the fut...
ELON MUSK I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about ...
ELON MUSK When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
ELON MUSK The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.
ELON MUSK Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetar...
ELON MUSK The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will n...
ELON MUSK What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-pow...
ELON MUSK A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces ...
ELON MUSK I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new techn...
ELON MUSK To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineer...
ELON MUSK There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to liv...
ELON MUSK The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and th...
ELON MUSK Great companies are built on great products.
ELON MUSK It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too....
ELON MUSK I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pa...
ELON MUSK Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
ELON MUSK I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
ELON MUSK Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
ELON MUSK I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
ELON MUSK If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a ...
ELON MUSK There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of ...
ELON MUSK Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
ELON MUSK I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter ac...
ELON MUSK Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead,...
ELON MUSK If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingr...
ELON MUSK I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing th...
ELON MUSK I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about ...
ELON MUSK Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
ELON MUSK If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being abl...
ELON MUSK I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email...
ELON MUSK When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
ELON MUSK The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
ELON MUSK People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward...
ELON MUSK There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If t...
ELON MUSK If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwi...
ELON MUSK If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
ELON MUSK The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorpor...
ELON MUSK I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that...
ELON MUSK I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, a...
ELON MUSK A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gas...
ELON MUSK I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United S...
ELON MUSK We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbo...
ELON MUSK An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...
ELON MUSK In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
ELON MUSK The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make somethi...
ELON MUSK My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
ELON MUSK When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?'...
ELON MUSK It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
ELON MUSK Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding ...
ELON MUSK A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the ...
ELON MUSK The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric mo...
ELON MUSK The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're...
ELON MUSK I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first pri...
ELON MUSK Our approach has been to take no chances whatsoever.
ELON MUSK We did have an ablative chamber fail during the Merlin qualification program.
ELON MUSK is analogous to building part of an airplane in a factory and part of the airplane on the runway. Yo...
ELON MUSK that are happy to sign up as soon as they see a launch that works.
ELON MUSK A lot depends on our first launch, ... Even though I really want to launch as soon as possible, I do...
ELON MUSK Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight. The cost… is fundamentally what'...
ELON MUSK [What Space X ultimately contributes to space travel might please the government in other ways.] One...
ELON MUSK the Internet; changing the energy cycle from petroleum-based to solar-electric; and moving into spac...
ELON MUSK The way it's looking right now, our engine might be one percent below our specifications, but still ...
ELON MUSK Some rockets turn faster than others, depending upon the trajectory. In this case it is going to go ...
ELON MUSK Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween (October 31) from our island launch compl...
ELON MUSK We are not simply going to address this particular point problem and then merrily jump back into a c...
ELON MUSK I'm very pro-environment, but let's figure out how to do it better and not jump through a dozen hoop...
ELON MUSK We're developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These ...
ELON MUSK [He'd better be, because the new space race already is under way and competition is shaping up as fi...
ELON MUSK Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight. The cost… is fundamentally what's...
ELON MUSK I don't want to say specific numbers. But I've certainly spent more than I expected to spend,
ELON MUSK I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
ELON MUSK It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundame...
ELON MUSK It’s pretty hard to get to another star system. Alpha Centauri is four light years away, so if you...
ELON MUSK If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwi...
CALVIN FOSTER (ELON MUSK) My soul is pained that the people of Israel are led by people who think that it is popular before th...
BENNY ELON If the Jews don't wake up, by the time of the election, we will already have lost Hebron and all of ...
BENNY ELON The army has won it has defeated its own sons and daughters successfully. Personally, I will remain ...
BENNY ELON We will make every effort to ensure that Ariel Sharon will fall in the coming elections,
BENNY ELON it would be very difficult for a future government to shake it off
BENNY ELON I can only hope that from the strength of this operation we will become the country we once were.
BENNY ELON It is unfathomable that the prime minister that has expelled families from their homes, destructed J...
BENNY ELON The army has won — it has defeated its own sons and daughters succe...
BENNY ELON The army has won — it has defeated its own sons and daughters successfully. Personally, I will rema...
BENNY ELON Boulder should be next to the word 'community' in the dictionary.
KIMBAL MUSK Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, ...
KIMBAL MUSK It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway ...
KIMBAL MUSK The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chi...
KIMBAL MUSK When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if...
KIMBAL MUSK People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it's like a five-minute conversation. The...
KIMBAL MUSK When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk...
KIMBAL MUSK The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.
KIMBAL MUSK Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made ...
KIMBAL MUSK My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you hav...
KIMBAL MUSK Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farme...
KIMBAL MUSK The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly ...
KIMBAL MUSK Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the...
KIMBAL MUSK Microwave sales have plateaued as people realize that reheated TV dinners give us no joy.
KIMBAL MUSK Our family are all very hard working.
KIMBAL MUSK