Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational miserable driven
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
thinking car energy
I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling
years long important
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
halloween islands target
Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.
inspirational facts emotion
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
want expecting expecting-things
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
inspirational successful thinking
Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.
inspirational motivation impact
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
inspirational thinking fundamentals
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
glasses entrepreneur eating
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
book time-management management
I've actually not read any books on time management.
tough easy tough-things
The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.
thinking people important
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
beach lying ideas
The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.