Elon Musk Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. — Carol Vorderman

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. — Elon Musk

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from. — Ray Bradbury

Physics is a good framework for thinking ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there. — Elon Musk

Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics - "5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with the bayonet only & Kill everybody with clothes on. — William J. Cooper Jr.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. — Elon Musk

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling. — Jim Rash

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. — Elon Musk

As a child I would just question things ... — Elon Musk

What she loved: life, London, this moment of June. — Virginia Woolf

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it. — Elon Musk

U r unique. U r miracle. Nobody knows his true worth, until he doesn't rise. — Naresh Sharma

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. — Elon Musk

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover. — Tamim Ansary

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be ... better. — Elon Musk

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world. — Elon Musk

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable. — Elon Musk

We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.
Boys are not allowed to love each other.
Then we painted a bison on the wall. — Andrew Smith

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless. — Sam Altman

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. — Rush Limbaugh

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. — Elon Musk

I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there — Terence McKenna

Don't be afraid of new arenas. — Elon Musk

Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes. — Edith Wharton