Quotes by Elon Musk

“AI will know you better than your friends know you, most of your friends anyway.”

“An ironically funny outcome seems to be often what fate wants.”

“Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

“Biden is a damp sock puppet in human form.”

“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead; other times it will be behind. But a brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”

“Disruptive technology, where you really have a big technology discontinuity. tends to come from new companies.”

“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below.”

“He doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.”

“Honestly, if I never go to space, that will be OK. The point is to maximize the probable life span of humanity.”

“Humanoid robots will uncork the economy to quasi-infinite levels.”

“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.”

“I always have optimism, but I’m realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX… It’s just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway.”

“I am by nature obsessive-compulsive. In terms of being an asshole or screwing up, I’m personally as guilty of that as anyone.”

“I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.”

“I couldn’t think of anything more exciting, more fun, more inspiring for the future, than to have a base on Mars. It would be incredibly difficult and probably lots of people will die and terrible and great things will happen along the way, just as happened in the formation of the United States.”

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.”

“I give people hardcore feedback, mostly accurate, and I try not to do it in a way that’s ad hominem. I try to criticize the action, not the person.”

“I have a sleeping bag in a conference room next to the manufacturing production line that I use quite frequently.”

“I really don’t have any other motivation for personally accumulating assets except to be able to make the biggest contribution I can to making life multiplanetary.”

“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

“I think the best defense against the misuse of AI is to empower as many people as possible to have AI.”

“I thought about the things that will truly affect humanity. I came up with three: the internet, sustainable energy and space travel.”

“I want to avoid the bullshit disputes about Trump. If he’s engaged in criminal activity — it seems increasingly that he has — that’s not OK.”

“I was working every day, all day and night, in a situation that required me to pull a rabbit out of the hat, now do it again, now do it again.”

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

“I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.”

“If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.”

“If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself! Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?”

“If you don’t improve, your resignation will be accepted. This meeting is over. Done.”

“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.”

“It would certainly be accurate to say that I did not have a good childhood.”

“I’m just a fool for love. I am often a fool, but especially for love.”

“I’ve actually not read any books on time management.”

“I’ve been burning the candle at both ends with a flame-thrower for a very long time.”

“Managers should always take care of their team before they take care of themselves. The supervisor is there to serve his team—not the other way round.”

“Mars is not super hospitable. It’s the least inhospitable planet, but it’s definitely a fixer-upper of a planet.”

“Most of the time, a mask is not good for you.”

“My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”

“My brain is full. It will take a night of sleep to turn the data into something.”

“My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.”

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

“Physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation. I’ve seen plenty of people break the laws made by man, but none break the laws made by physics.”

“Suing the military industrial complex is something you do not take lightly.”

“The amount that I torture myself is next level, frankly.”

“The attacks against me should be viewed through a political lens — this is their standard (despicable) playbook — but nothing will deter me from fighting for a good future and your right to free speech.”

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

“The sheer amount of time that I spent at work was so extreme that any relationship was very difficult to maintain.”

“This woke-mind virus resides primarily in the Democratic Party, even though most Dems don’t agree with it.”

“Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever. Like my dad.”

“Unless a sensor is absolutely needed to start an engine or safely stop an engine before it explodes, it must be deleted.”

“Unless the woke mind virus — which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit and antihuman in general — is stopped, civilization will never become multiplanetary.”

“We can reprogram robots easier than we can reprogram humans.”

“What is going to affect the future in a good way? And holding onto grudges does not affect the future in a good way.”

“What matters to me is winning, and not in a small way. God knows why.”

“What really matters to accelerate a sustainable future is being able to scale up production volume as quickly as possible.”

“You have 72 hours to remove every unnecessary machine.”