Elon Musk Quotes

So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

In almost any industry, if you're passionate about doing a great job and making people that buy your product or service as happy as possible, it's really fulfilling.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.

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.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

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.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

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.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

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.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

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

It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad