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
country great-things
I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.
doe attention pay
Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.
inspirational want entrepreneurship
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
vacation views trying
I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
inspirational thinking space
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
thinking europe long
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
inspirational damage want
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
break hard effects
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
inspirational america spirit
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
car gasoline prius
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.
technology people valleys
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
bridges car opinion
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
thinking people guy
I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
bmw car electric
I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.