Elon Musk

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Elon Musk

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.

Elon Musk

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Elon Musk

I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.

Elon Musk

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Elon Musk

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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

I read books and talked to people. I mean that’s kind of how one learns anything. There’s lots of great books out there and lots of smart people.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Elon Musk