472 Quotes by elon musk

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.

If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.