FAMOUS QUOTES OF ALAN MUSK
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” ― Elon Musk
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” ― Elon Musk
“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.” ― Elon Musk
“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.” ― Elon Musk
“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve” ― 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.” ― Elon Musk
“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.” ― Elon Musk
“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” ― Elon Musk
“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.” ― Elon Musk
“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” ― Elon Musk
“No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated” ― Elon Musk
“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.” ― Elon Musk
“If you need inspiration, don't do it.” ― Elon Musk
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” ― Elon Musk
“The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.” ― Elon Musk
“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.” ― Elon Musk
“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.” ― Elon Musk
“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.” ― Elon Musk