Browse 67 quotes about Elon Musk.
“True innovation isn’t about money - it’s about the vision, passion, and unwavering belief in a dream. Elon Musk’s relentless drive, his faith in his team’s capabilities, and the support they provided made landing a rocket back on Earth a reality, proving that extraordinary achievements come from extraordinary dedication.”
“The singular virtue of the [Twitter] fiasco over which [Elon] Musk has presided is the possibility that the outcome will sever, at least temporarily, the American conflation of wealth with intellect. Market valuation is not proof of genius.”
“If the shoes don't fit, try wearing your own.”
“It seems Elon Musk follows a policy of halving the staff and making the remaining staff work twice as many hours in companies he acquires!”
“One of the reasons why I admire Elon Musk is his ideals are so inspiring. And maybe to a certain extent match with my ideals in life. He doesn't own a house, and he doesn't indulge in other luxuries. He leads a minimalist life. Wouldn't our world become a better place if most people did not indulge in wasting money on buying luxuries?”
“English: "Why an agnostic Russell's teapot? All you need is Musk's car in the Sun's orbit."
Česky: „Nač agnostická Russellova čajová konvice?
Stačí Muskovo auto na oběžné dráze Slunce.”
“Usually, we develop our leadership style by unconsciously copying others, either parents or charismatic public figures (like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk) or (more likely) current or former bosses. It can also be a blend of the aforementioned. The reason is that most of us never formally learnt leadership or management — we simply watched and learned on the job. The problem is that many of us had and still have terrible role models.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“Why bother reading? Why not just download all the known knowledge directly into your brain? Let Elon Musk implant a chip through your skull and get a year's subscription to heated seats in your Tesla for FREE.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“Why are people so worried that Elon Musk bought Twitter? Don't they know that the corporate world bought their politics long ago?”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Hope Gone Sour (American Sonnet)
America is not a country,
America is an abomination.
America is a scourge on
the fabric of time, the
ideal tale of precaution.
America is a living record
of humans regressing to animal.
America is a perfect specimen
of democracy cleverly dismantled.
America is a nation built by
terrorists for the terrorists.
America holds world record for
humanity's worst of atrocities.
America is a promise of hope gone sour.
America is plague amongst fellowship of powers.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.”
Source: Elon Musk
“[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my dad. Bullshitting can sometimes baffle the brain. If you just think of Trump as sort of a con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense." When the president pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accord, an international agreement to fight climate change, Musk resigned from the presidential councils.”
Source: Elon Musk
“He had developed a deep disdain of Donald Trump, whom he considered a con man, but he wasn’t impressed by Joe Biden. “When he was vice president, I went to lunch with him in San Francisco where he droned on for an hour and was boring as hell, like one of those dolls where you pull the string and it just says the same mindless phrases over and over.” Nonetheless, he says he would have voted for Biden in 2020, but he decided that going to the polls in California, where he was then registered, was a waste of time because it was not a contested state.”
Source: Elon Musk
“Elon Musk over promises to deliver proprietary-to-novel products in short time but delivers a bit late. The advantage of this tactic is it drives global PR ad also lures pre-orders.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“When NASA had awarded SpaceX the contract to build a rocket that would take astronauts to the Space Station, it had, on the same day in 2014, given a competing contract, with 40 percent more funding to Boeing. By the time SpaceX succeeded in 2020, Boeing had not even been able to get an unmanned test flight to dock with the station.”
Source: Elon Musk
“Twitter is an ideal—almost too ideal—playground for Musk. It rewards players who are impulsive, irreverent, and unfiltered, like a flamethrower for the thumbs.”
Source: Elon Musk
“The Falcon 9’s two launch stages are engineered to return to earn. The first part of the rocket propels the rocket head and then returns to earth and lands where it fired from. This is done by using grid fins and the engines performing retry burning.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“The Raptor engine is another advanced innovation, as it is the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown and produces the highest combustion chamber pressure ever reached by an operational rocket engine (330 bars). The previous record holder did 290 to 300 bar in one mode of operation is the (Soviet's RD-701 engine) in the 1980s.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Overall, the success of SpaceX serves as an example of how re-imagining manufacturing and applying new materials and proprietary innovations can lead to significant cost reductions and novel innovations. It is important to always remain on the lookout for new ideas and improvements and to have a technically capable team in place to make them a reality.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Elon Musk, a multifaceted industrial designer, engineer, and technologist, also possesses these artisan-like hands. He has the capacity to deconstruct complex systems, identify areas for improvement, and construct his own enhanced versions.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Innovators possess the drive and determination to act upon their interest to learn a skill or pursue a vision, even if it means hiring skills to develop or create for them. Again still, they possess the drive and determination to act upon their visions, turning them into tangible realities. Their actions set them apart from the rest, as they actively engage with the challenges, uncertainties, and possibilities inherent in the creation process.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“To become an innovator, one must first be in motion, continuously pursuing their passions and engaging in meaningful activities. This proactive mindset, coupled with the drive to explore and create, is what sets the stage for innovation. Just like Dr. Fleming, who made groundbreaking discoveries by actively conducting experiments and pushing the boundaries of his field, true innovators understand the value of taking action.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Innovation itself can be viewed as a stack of interconnected elements. Consider a chair, for instance, which combines wood or other solid materials with a specific geometric shape designed for comfortable seating, primarily suited for humans. Adding cushions to the chair further enhances its innovation by increasing comfort.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“To become an innovator, one must possess the ability to envision novel innovations across a range of domains, from material discoveries to proprietary-novelty. Acquiring diverse skills and cultivating a mindset that embraces cross-disciplinary thinking and exploration paves the way for the generation of groundbreaking ideas. The breadth of knowledge and expertise allows innovators to traverse different realms, connect seemingly unrelated concepts, and ultimately push the boundaries of what is possible.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“As you acquire more skills, your ability to create a wider range of products expands. With each new skill, you gain increased confidence, practicality, and boldness, enabling you to pursue and develop even more daring and innovative creations. Elon Musk's approach to innovation operates in this manner.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Elon Musk hires smart people and let them figure solutions. At the founding of SpaceX, Musk hired various engineers to help build these would be novel rockets that would cost clients a fraction of the then going rate.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Elon Musk suffers from over promising and delivering a tad bit late – but not under-delivering.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“A great frame inferred to encapsulate Musk’s hiring philosophy is the ‘two-hands test’. It means the candidate must have first-hand experience and a hands-on expertise in testing. Passing the two-hands test proves you have skin in the game.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“Don't be puzzled and surprised if Elon Musk is on Twitter like Trump at the White House.”
“Por que tantas pessoas de sucesso, como o Elon Musk e Roger do Ultraje a Rigor, são de extrema direita?”
Source: A armadilha da meritocracia: Por que “o céu é o limite” não é verdade (Ensaios, percepções e pensamentos)
“Are you familiar with the phrase "to grok"?
It comes from the 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. The main character is a human raised on Mars whose English language is peppered with Martian words. "To grok something" means to wrap your head around a concept.”
Source: The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“Dear John Twitter
(Delete Twitter Sonnet)
For a long time I've been
backin' away from twitter,
but I didn't cut tie completely
hoping that it might get better.
Now that a far right billionaire baboon
has turned it into the internet sewer,
there's no point to hanging on to filth,
twitter used to be relevant, but no longer.
From time to time, colonial morons try to
bring back the good ol' days of segregation.
It's up to the human society to take charge,
and castrate their ambition through isolation.
Quarantine rabid dogs by absolute dissociation,
To entertain filth is to perpetrate uncivilization.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Yeah, I did not have DOGE being the center of the Trump administration before January 20, but it certainly has become the center. And, to me, it's revelatory. You get the richest guy in the world cutting off food for the starving children around the world. Like, that's the essence of what it is. The second thing it is, it's cruelty and ruthlessness. I have had so many conversations over the last couple of weeks with people inside federal agencies when the DOGE boys comes to count. And they are naked in their cruelty, that this agency disagrees with Donald Trump, people here, we don't like what you believe, and we're just getting rid of you. And so that cruelty is kind of naked. And, to me, it symbolizes something that is at the epitome of this administration. These DOGE people, Elon Musk, he went to Penn. The DOGE people went to Harvard, they went to Stanford, they worked at McKinsey. These are not populists. These are elitists. These are conservative microelites who've been in elite universities who play in the elite circles and they want to take it out on their fellow elites. And that's what this administration has become about, a battle between elites, not somebody representing the working class for problems that are real.”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian Larry David, who was officiating at the wedding, was at Musk's table, and when they sat down, David seemed to be fuming. "Do you just want to murder kids in schools?" he asked Musk.
"No, no," Musk stuttered, both baffled and annoyed. "I'm anti-kid murder."
"Then how could you vote Republican?" David asked.”
“Don't worry about building the next Tesla. Build the next Elon Musk and Tesla will be born out of him.”
“If money cannot buy happiness for Elon Musk, ask him to try buying it by barter.”
“Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.”
“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
“At SpaceX, we specialize in converting things from impossible to late.”
“I think I have a pretty deep understanding of what Money actually is on a practical day to day basis because of paypal. right now, the money system for practical purposes is really a bunch of heterogeneous mainframes running old COBOL. Literally.”
“Threads snap.You would lose your way in the labyrinth.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“In 2015, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk quipped, “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don’t have to do anything. It just works. It shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.”
Source: Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
“No mechanic now for modern cars, no doctor now for modern pathologies. The infinitesimal calculus of viral pathologies, unlocatable by traditional diagnostics, has entirely outstripped the mechanics of the body, just as the electronics of the modern car have outstripped the knowledge of its user. But one can imagine an electronic 'smartness' of the body (like 'smart' cars
or houses) that would inform you of all its anomalies, or even, by a kind of GPS effect, of your position in the space of human relations.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“If I wanted to use a platform controlled by mindless, privileged, entitled, pestilential, white terrorists, I'd have gone for Truth social.”
“If all of this were taking place, Musk, then in his mid-fifties, likely would be the richest man in the world and among its most powerful.”
Source: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
“In a world full of Elon Musks, be a Dan Price.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Don't be puzzled and surprised if Elon Mush is on Twitter like Trump at the White House.”
“Elon Musk, Before you, my Tweets impression rate was above thousands, but after you, they catch the attention of hardly a few ones despite tagging dozens; can you justify such hidden restrictions that they are not coercion to get Tweet Promote in this way?”
“After more than 30 years in the middle of it, we could tell you stories. The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it”
“Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter, where we are now. Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site — everybody’s allowed here, and we think that’s a good thing. And yet, for the most part the news you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like a debate but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that’s a bad system. Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six-and-a-half years to Twitter.”