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.
BusinessElon MuskI hate when people confuse education with intelligence. You can have a bachelor's degree and still be an idiot.
Education, IntelligenceElon MuskI'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
Elon MuskSome people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
ChangeElon MuskIf humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
Progress, Raumfahrt, MarsElon MuskIn the distant future, people may outlaw driving cars because it’s too dangerous. You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.
CarsElon MuskWhen something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
AmbitionElon MuskPeople should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
PassionElon MuskIn terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.
InternetElon Musk, Wired Interview - 18.08.2012Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
TeslaElon Musk