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142 quotes by Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/; born June 28, 1971) is a South Africa-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Zip2. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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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... →

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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to... →

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

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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... →

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

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My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical... →

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Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on... →

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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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

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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be... →

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

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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... →

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