472 Quotes by elon musk

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

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

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

If all your competitors are banding together to sort of attack you, that's a good compliment, I think. A very sincere compliment.

It's important to create an environment that fosters innovation, but you want to let it evolve in a Darwinian way. You don't want to, at a high level, at a gut level, pick a technology and decide that that's the thing that's going to win because it may not be. You should really let things evolve.

If you go back a few hundred years what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances to transmit images flying accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

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