472 Quotes by elon musk

As a child I would just question things...

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

I've been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I'm getting really tired of Disneyland.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.