Elon Musk Quotes

• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.-Elon Musk
• Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.-Elon Musk
• Life is too short for long-term grudges.-Elon Musk
• People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.-Elon Musk
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• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.-Elon Musk
• Great companies are built on great products.-Elon Musk
• When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.-Elon Musk

• We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.-Elon Musk
• I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.-Elon Musk
• I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.-Elon Musk
• Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.-Elon Musk
• If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.-Elon Musk
 

• An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.-Elon Musk
• Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.-Elon Musk
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• When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.-Elon Musk
• A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.-Elon Musk
• 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.-Elon Musk
• I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.-Elon Musk
• 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.-Elon Musk
• I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.-Elon Musk
• I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.-Elon Musk
• My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.-Elon Musk
• I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.-Elon Musk
• I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.-Elon Musk
• The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.-Elon Musk
• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.-Elon Musk
• Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.-Elon Musk
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• Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.-Elon Musk
• Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.-Elon Musk
• If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.-Elon Musk
• 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.-Elon Musk
• The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.-Elon Musk
• The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.-Elon Musk
• There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.-Elon Musk
• We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.-Elon Musk

• 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
• When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.-Elon Musk
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• They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.-Elon Musk
• 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.-Elon Musk
• 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.-Elon Musk
• I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot.-Elon Musk
• That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.-Elon Musk
• I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.-Elon Musk

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Family

In 2000, Musk married his longtime girlfriend Justine Wilson. Two years later they had their first child, Nevada Alexander Musk who died at the age of 10 weeks. In 2004, Twins Xavier and Griffin were born and in 2006, triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damianwere born. The couple soon divorced in 2008 and share custody of their kids. In 2012, he married English actress Talulah Riley and divorced her in 2016 for the second time. Musk and Canadian musician Grimes had their child in 2020 and named him “X Æ A-12” and later changed to "X AE A-XII" Musk. Musk has 6 sons.

Elon Musk has revolutionized transportation both on Earth and in space, through electric car maker Tesla and via rocket producer SpaceX respectively. Elon Musk is a man with power, dashing and  great personality. This quality of him makes him top the list of the most powerful men on earth. He is highly inspirational and always encourages others with his incredible quotes. Elon Musk’s way of life is very inspiring to the youth. His stylish lifestyle is very tempting. His life teaches us a lot of things. One should never give up what may come. At age of 50, Elon Musk is now worth as much as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined i.e., around $230 billion. He is a self made man with no inherited wealth. Share quotes of the richest man with your friends, family, colleagues and well wishers and inspire them to do big.