Quotes by Elon Musk

Great companies are built on great products.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

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

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

In 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.

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

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

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

In 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.