Elon Musk in 2010: Starting a rocket company is pretty risky, but I'm a big believer in extending life beyond Earth. “The reason I'm doing SpaceX is not due to some childhood epiphany or because I think this is the highest return on investment way to spend money. I think

“Freedom is priceless.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Starship is next-level. It's the first rocket that can take us to Mars. “Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket that's ever been made by, I don't know, an order of magnitude or something like that. It's a lot. It's really next-level. The fundamental

Elon Musk: The real hard problem is to improve products while making them more affordable at the same time. “If you have a compelling product and it is affordable, so the value for money is good, and people have enough money to buy it, then demand is never going to be an issue.

Elon Musk: It's incredibly hypocritical of Democrat politicians to not condemn the violence against Tesla. “It is remarkable that there is so much violence. People have burnt cars, they fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of innocent people

Elon Musk: Maybe we need to add some more history lessons back in schools. “I think there was one article that called the President worse than Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin combined. I'm like, actually, President Trump has not killed anyone. In fact, he's very good at stopping

Here's Elon Musk explaining to Joe Rogan that he bought Twitter to extend the probable lifespan of civilization. “I'm just trying to keep civilization going here, for longer. I think we at least want to build a city on Mars and become a multiplanet civilization, which I think

“No kids, no humans, no humanity.” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Making 1000 Starships a year is actually very achievable. “We will be making, at some point, probably as many Starships for Mars as Boeing and Airbus make commercial airplanes. So this is really an enormous scale. And each Starship is bigger than a 747 or an A380.

Elon Musk: I wouldn't even use the Wall Street Journal to line my cage for parrot droppings. “Is there a worse publication on the face of the Earth than the Wall Street Journal? I wouldn't use that to line my cage for parrot droppings. That newspaper is the worst newspaper in

Elon Musk: Those who care about life on Earth should care about life becoming multiplanetary. “If you think really long-term, then you realize that eventually there will be some natural disaster, even if it is not made by humans, that destroys all life on Earth. Eventually, the

Elon Musk: We need to solve the birth rate issue one way or another, or civilization will dwindle to nothing. “People sometimes think there are too many people in the world. That's certainly not the case. You can fit all the humans on Earth on one floor in the city of New York.

Elon Musk: Neuralink will enable you to communicate thousands, perhaps millions of times faster than currently. “When you're trying to communicate with somebody else, you're actually trying to model their mind state and then take quite a complex idea that you have, maybe even a

Elon Musk: It has been a very difficult journey. But I think there are certain important things that we must do in order for the future to be good. (Danish TV DR, February 2018)

Here's Elon Musk back in 2010 announcing that SpaceX is going to try to build a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket. “The pivotal breakthrough that's necessary, that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary is a fully and rapidly reusable

Elon Musk: The right metric for intelligence is the ability to predict the future. “You're as intelligent as you can predict the future well. If somebody claims this person or this AI is very intelligent, like, well, how good are its predictions? And if its predictions are not

Marc Benioff: No one is like Elon. He clearly sees the future. “I want to get to the future first and welcome our customers there. By the way, that's what I think Elon Musk does so well. I don't know what all the crazy things he's doing to see the future. He's clearly doing some

Elon Musk: I don't decide on new products based on consumer surveys. I rather try to mentally simulate what people would like. “I don't decide on new products based on consumer surveys or something like that. I try to mentally simulate what the end customer would like. In the

Elon Musk: Continuing to send poor kids into the meat grinder every day with no end in sight is cruel, inhumane, and senseless. “I have no respect for the warmongers and the war profiteers and those who want the war to continue forever for their own purposes. This is, in my

Elon Musk's advice to entrepreneurs: Life is too short not to do what you love. “Successful entrepreneurs probably come in all sizes and shapes and flavors. I'm not sure there's any one particular thing. I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the