Elon Musk Quotes
I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
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.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
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.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
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.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
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