Elon Musk

"It’s a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work."

- Elon Musk

"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 it better."

- Elon Musk

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."

- Elon Musk

"If something’s important enough, you should try."

- Elon Musk

"If something is important enough, or you believe something is important enough, even if you are scared, you will keep going."

- Elon Musk

"If something's important enough, you should try."

- Elon Musk

"Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world."

- Elon Musk

"You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"If something’s important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure."

- Elon Musk

"The hardest thing in life is to find the right people to hire."

- Elon Musk

"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors."

- Elon Musk

"If you’re building a company, you’ve got to gather great people. I mean, all a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service."

- Elon Musk

"Great companies are built on great products."

- Elon Musk

"If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"Mistakes are the foundation of innovation."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"Life is too short for long-term grudges."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

"We need to be bold and ambitious in our thinking about how we can solve the world's problems."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"I think it's possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

"[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."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"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."

- Elon Musk

"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."

- Elon Musk

"There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur."

- Elon Musk

"I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems."

- Elon Musk

"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God as my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."

- Elon Musk

"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."

- Elon Musk

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

- Elon Musk

"Truck drivers are the backbone of the transportation industry, ensuring that goods are delivered on time and safely."

- Elon Musk

"Productivity is not about working more hours, it's about working smarter."

- Elon Musk