472 Quotes by Elon Musk

There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It’s less like a picture and more like a movie. It’s the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It’s the acceleration.

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

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.

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

Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I’m not sure it would progress at the same pace.

Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?