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Elon Musk Quotes | Quotes said by Elon Musk

  • Elon Musk Quote #1

    A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.


  • Elon Musk Quote #2

    America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

  • Elon Musk Quote #3

    An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

  • Elon Musk Quote #4

    Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

  • Elon Musk Quote #5

    As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

  • Elon Musk Quote #6

    Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

  • Elon Musk Quote #7

    Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

  • Elon Musk Quote #8

    Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  • Elon Musk Quote #9

    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 Quote #10

    Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

  • Elon Musk Quote #11

    Great companies are built on great products.

  • Elon Musk Quote #12

    I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

  • Elon Musk Quote #13

    I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

  • Elon Musk Quote #14

    I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

  • Elon Musk Quote #15

    I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

  • Elon Musk Quote #16

    I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

  • Elon Musk Quote #17

    I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

  • Elon Musk Quote #18

    I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

  • Elon Musk Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

    I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

  • Elon Musk Quote #22

    I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

  • Elon Musk Quote #23

    I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

  • Elon Musk Quote #24

    I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  • Elon Musk Quote #25

    I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

  • Elon Musk Quote #26

    I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

  • Elon Musk Quote #27

    I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

  • Elon Musk Quote #28

    I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

  • Elon Musk Quote #29

    I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

  • Elon Musk Quote #30

    If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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