Elon Musk: When I felt the censorship was closing in, I acquired Twitter to make it a bastion of free speech. “I started having concerns about three years ago, but I just had an uneasy feeling that something doesn't feel right. The censorship was becoming ridiculous. I had the

Elon Musk: The Starship program is a rapidly changing situation. It's really just a question of how much we can learn in the shortest period of time. “Think of it like a guided missile: A guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given point in time, but it

Elon Musk: Using the tools of physics is like having a superpower. “The tools of physics are incredibly helpful to understand and make progress in any field. First principles obviously just means break things down to the fundamental axiomatic elements that are most likely to be

Elon Musk 12 years ago on establishing a base on Mars: Someone needs to work on it! “SpaceX or some combination of companies and governments need to make progress in the direction of making life multiplanetary, of establishing a base on another planet, Mars being the only

MrBeast: Elon's plan to colonize Mars is the most badass thing happening on Earth right now. “Elon's vision for his companies and the way he pushes them to do things that were just not even humanly possible or imaginable a decade prior is very admirable. That's something I look

Elon Musk: Manufacturing is often looked down upon, which I think is wrong. Somebody's got to do the real work.

Elon Musk: Most people in the corporate world behave like NPCs – I try to keep the people entertained. “Most people in the corporate world really try to conform to some sort of behavioral thing that makes them seem like an android or drone or like some NPC in a video game with a

Elon Musk: Tunnels are under-appreciated “I have this company called the Boring Company, which sounds kind of boring, but it literally bores tunnels. In order to solve traffic, you really need to go 3D with roads. By using tunnels, you can essentially create like a wormhole,

Elon Musk: I didn't want to become the CEO of Tesla, but I wasn't able to find the right person. It’s really hard to find someone who can grow a company. “When we created Tesla, my plan was to allocate maybe 20 or 30% of my time to it, and for SolarCity, I figured 5% or 10% of

Elon Musk: CEOs should be ready to take on any task, no matter how humble. “Whether you're a CEO or any role in a startup, you do whatever it takes to succeed and just always be smashing your ego. Internalize responsibility. A major failure mode is when ego to ability ratio is

Former SpaceX employee: I think Elon is smarter than Einstein. “SpaceX is special forces. We take on the missions that others deem impossible. This will be the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. It is the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, the

Elon Musk on how to choose a career in the age of AI: Just follow your heart and try to contribute some good to the rest of society. “That is a tough question to answer. I guess I would just say to follow their heart in terms of what they find interesting to do or fulfilling to

Elon Musk: Mars will not be an escape hatch for the rich. It will be difficult and dangerous. “The moon and Mars are often thought of as some escape hatch for rich people. But it won't be that at all. For the early people who go to Mars, it'll be dangerous. It kind of reads like

Elon Musk: We should encourage the AI to be truthful and honorable. “We need to make sure that the AI is a good AI, a good Grok. And the thing that I think is most important for AI safety, at least my biological neural net tells me the most important thing for AI is to be

Elon Musk: Any given thing can be sped up. However fast you think it can be done, it can be done faster.

Elon Musk: My philosophy is that if you play, you play to win.

Elon Musk: Shallow empathy is caring about criminals. Deep empathy is caring about the victims of the criminals. “The good interpretation of the woke movement is that we want to have empathy for our fellow human beings. Of course, we want to have empathy for our fellow humans.

Elon Musk: We need electric transport and solar to avoid economic collapse in the long term. “My initial interest in electric cars and solar was not environmentally driven. It was rather from the standpoint that we must have a long-term solution for the production of energy.

Elon Musk: SpaceX wants to establish a link with Mars just like the Union Pacific established a link with California. “Assuming SpaceX can transport large numbers of people and goods to Mars, it will greatly enable entrepreneurial activity there. There's so much to do—everything

Elon Musk: Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work. “Try to be as useful as possible. It may sound trite, but it's so hard to be useful, especially to be useful to a lot of people, where you say the area under the curve of total utility is how useful have you been to your fellow