Elon Musk Short Quotes

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If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.

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One was the Internet, one was clean energy and one was space.

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Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.

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I'm nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.

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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.

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I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.

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Falcon One is going to be the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any production rocket.

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If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.

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The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.

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There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation.
Explaining what will happen when robots take people's jobs.

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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

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I think we've got the risks pretty well characterized. I think we are at least avoiding the mistakes that have been made in the past.

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Tuition costs are outrageous. Fortunately, they gave me a scholarship…so I only had to cover living expenses, books, etc., by working.

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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

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Which means we're cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than [the] Russians or anywhere else – and we're doing it in the United States with American labour costs.

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There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It's just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.

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There's a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There's probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.

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I don't have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn't seem like a really good way to spend time.

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My approach is simply to seek out very talented people, ensure that the environment at SpaceX is as motivating & enjoyable as possible and establish clear & measurable objectives.

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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.

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I didn't really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.

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I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.

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