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
heart thinking matter
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
technology thinking cells
It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
thinking levels foolish
I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.
thinking important done
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.
inspirational heart thinking
Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
success inspiration thinking
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
thinking people age
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
moon thinking progress
To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.
technology thinking cells
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
dream believe thinking
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success
inspirational thinking earth
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
thinking car people
People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.
motivation thinking electric-vehicles
Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.
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