Elon Musk Quotes About Innovation

Elon Musk is no doubt one of the most successful and most influential entrepreneur alive. Besides building fast cars and spaceships, he has also envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.

Musk has said the goals of his companies: SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.

Here are Elon Musk's quotes on innovation, space travel and business;

1. I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like. "Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?"

2. To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games, nothing like saving the world.

3. When you're trying to create a company, It's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients the right proportion.

4. Starting a business id not for everyone. Starting a business- I'd sy, number one is have a high pain threshold.

5. 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.

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

7. There's a silly notion that failure's not an option in NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

8. An asteroid or a super volcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw; an engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

9. It's okay to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

10. People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will amke them happier that pretty much anything else.

11. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think abiut how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

12. You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

13. Good ideas are always crazy until they're not.

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

15. Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

16. There have to be reasons that you wake up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find the incredibly depressing.

17. My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact in the world.

18. People work better when they know the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

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

20. Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

21. We could definitely make a flying car, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

22. There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have 5 kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

23. In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

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

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