Elon Musk Quotes

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when custom...

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car...

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good s...

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

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasolin...

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are ma...

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quit...

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the cen...

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basi...

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering ...

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of ...

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it wo...

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

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

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the...

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating...

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crop...

We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you m...

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se...

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will n...

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

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'...

Great companies are built on great products.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through th...

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space...

If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where...

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that...

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valle...

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

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead,...

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by ...

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intell...

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previous...

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United State...

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focuse...

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and t...

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're enc...

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

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the co...

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt ho...

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward...

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-...

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark f...

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We ...

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient ...

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multipla...

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things ar...

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients ...

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a...

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundame...

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If ...

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to liv...

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you...

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, an...

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tes...

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it'...

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives...

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I...

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a ...

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something r...

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things...

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. T...

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporatin...

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon di...

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space f...

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the...

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technolog...

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as go...

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always...

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be...

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky thi...