Elon Musk Quotes

“Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.”
― Elon Musk

“Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.”
― Elon Musk, Elon Musk

“[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my dad. Bullshitting can sometimes baffle the brain. If you just think of Trump as sort of a con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense." When the president pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Accord, an international agreement to fight climate change, Musk resigned from the presidential councils.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“He had developed a deep disdain of Donald Trump, whom he considered a con man, but he wasn’t impressed by Joe Biden. “When he was vice president, I went to lunch with him in San Francisco where he droned on for an hour and was boring as hell, like one of those dolls where you pull the string and it just says the same mindless phrases over and over.” Nonetheless, he says he would have voted for Biden in 2020, but he decided that going to the polls in California, where he was then registered, was a waste of time because it was not a contested state.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“When NASA had awarded SpaceX the contract to build a rocket that would take astronauts to the Space Station, it had, on the same day in 2014, given a competing contract, with 40 percent more funding to Boeing. By the time SpaceX succeeded in 2020, Boeing had not even been able to get an unmanned test flight to dock with the station.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“Twitter is an ideal—almost too ideal—playground for Musk. It rewards players who are impulsive, irreverent, and unfiltered, like a flamethrower for the thumbs.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“To become an innovator, one must possess the ability to envision novel innovations across a range of domains, from material discoveries to proprietary-novelty. Acquiring diverse skills and cultivating a mindset that embraces cross-disciplinary thinking and exploration paves the way for the generation of groundbreaking ideas. The breadth of knowledge and expertise allows innovators to traverse different realms, connect seemingly unrelated concepts, and ultimately push the boundaries of what is possible.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“As you acquire more skills, your ability to create a wider range of products expands. With each new skill, you gain increased confidence, practicality, and boldness, enabling you to pursue and develop even more daring and innovative creations. Elon Musk's approach to innovation operates in this manner.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Elon Musk hires smart people and let them figure solutions. At the founding of SpaceX, Musk hired various engineers to help build these would be novel rockets that would cost clients a fraction of the then going rate.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Elon Musk over promises to deliver proprietary-to-novel products in short time but delivers a bit late. The advantage of this tactic is it drives global PR ad also lures pre-orders.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Elon Musk suffers from over promising and delivering a tad bit late – but not under-delivering.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“A great frame inferred to encapsulate Musk’s hiring philosophy is the ‘two-hands test’. It means the candidate must have first-hand experience and a hands-on expertise in testing. Passing the two-hands test proves you have skin in the game.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Don't be puzzled and surprised if Elon Musk is on Twitter like Trump at the White House.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Por que tantas pessoas de sucesso, como o Elon Musk e Roger do Ultraje a Rigor, são de extrema direita? ”
― Jorge Guerra Pires, A armadilha da meritocracia: Por que “o céu é o limite” não é verdade (Ensaios, percepções e pensamentos)

“Elon Musk will be the cause of AI controlling humans and the necessities of life.”
― Kathy Greggs, The Mother The Soldier The Activist

“Are you familiar with the phrase "to grok"?
It comes from the 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. The main character is a human raised on Mars whose English language is peppered with Martian words. "To grok something" means to wrap your head around a concept.”
― Suzanne Giesemann, The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life

“Dear John Twitter
(Delete Twitter Sonnet)

For a long time I've been
backin' away from twitter,
but I didn't cut tie completely
hoping that it might get better.

Now that a far right billionaire baboon
has turned it into the internet sewer,
there's no point to hanging on to filth,
twitter used to be relevant, but no longer.

From time to time, colonial morons try to
bring back the good ol' days of segregation.
It's up to the human society to take charge,
and castrate their ambition through isolation.

Quarantine rabid dogs by absolute dissociation,
To entertain filth is to perpetrate uncivilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“I dissent from the systems not out of defiance, but from a vision for change. Through open conversations with those in power, I strive for reform. Here in this village, as everywhere, I see the flaws as clear as day. Yet, the fault isn't theirs alone. A community thrives or fails on the actions of its people, not just its leaders. If you champion free speech, embody that freedom in every word and act. Be the change, the 'X' you wish to see, not just in posts but in presence. Authenticity invites authenticity, fostering true freedom within our communities. Otherwise, we're just co-authoring a book of hollow tweets.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“True innovation isn’t about money - it’s about the vision, passion, and unwavering belief in a dream. Elon Musk’s relentless drive, his faith in his team’s capabilities, and the support they provided made landing a rocket back on Earth a reality, proving that extraordinary achievements come from extraordinary dedication.”
― Guru Z.S. Gill

“Hope Gone Sour (American Sonnet)

America is not a country,
America is an abomination.
America is a scourge on
the fabric of time, the
ideal tale of precaution.

America is a living record
of humans regressing to animal.
America is a perfect specimen
of democracy cleverly dismantled.

America is a nation built by
terrorists for the terrorists.
America holds world record for
humanity's worst of atrocities.

America is a promise of hope gone sour.
America is plague amongst fellowship of powers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Yeah, I did not have DOGE being the center of the Trump administration before January 20, but it certainly has become the center. And, to me, it's revelatory. You get the richest guy in the world cutting off food for the starving children around the world. Like, that's the essence of what it is. The second thing it is, it's cruelty and ruthlessness. I have had so many conversations over the last couple of weeks with people inside federal agencies when the DOGE boys comes to count. And they are naked in their cruelty, that this agency disagrees with Donald Trump, people here, we don't like what you believe, and we're just getting rid of you. And so that cruelty is kind of naked. And, to me, it symbolizes something that is at the epitome of this administration. These DOGE people, Elon Musk, he went to Penn. The DOGE people went to Harvard, they went to Stanford, they worked at McKinsey. These are not populists. These are elitists. These are conservative microelites who've been in elite universities who play in the elite circles and they want to take it out on their fellow elites. And that's what this administration has become about, a battle between elites, not somebody representing the working class for problems that are real.”
― David Brooks

“Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian Larry David, who was officiating at the wedding, was at Musk's table, and when they sat down, David seemed to be fuming. "Do you just want to murder kids in schools?" he asked Musk.

"No, no," Musk stuttered, both baffled and annoyed. "I'm anti-kid murder."

"Then how could you vote Republican?" David asked.”
― Walter Issacson

“Don't worry about building the next Tesla. Build the next Elon Musk and Tesla will be born out of him.”
― Anje Kruger

“If money cannot buy happiness for Elon Musk, ask him to try buying it by barter.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“One should never tell a child to be less weird or stop asking questions. There is nothing wrong with being hard to categorize, even if parents, teachers, and colleagues conspire to do this for no good reason. Einstein knew this. That’s why his advice to that young boy was, “Never lose a holy curiosity.”
― Charles Steel, The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently

“Reality is rarely what we think it is. Looking at it from new and different perspectives can show that we too often look for answers to meaning in the wrong place.”
― Charles Steel, The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently

“The most common error of an engineer is to optimize a thing which should not exists”
― Elon Musk

“Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department.”
― Elon Musk

“Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name (...) That person whose it putting forward the requirement or constraint (...) must take responsibility for a requirement.”
― Elon Musk

“Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department (...) [such] that [the] person whose is putting it forward (...) must take responsibility”
― Elon Musk