Elon Musk Inspirational Quotes

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• When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Success, Crazy

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

• Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

  "How Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. March 9, 2013.

• Life is too short for long-term grudges.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Eggs, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lessons

  "Now 0-for-3, Spacex's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit". Interview with Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. August 05, 2008.

• The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Firsts, Steps

  "Elon Musk: the new It Boy of Silicon Valley" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

• My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivation, Impact

• If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Important, Trying

  "Tesla And SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Industrial Empire". "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. March 30, 2014.

• People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Morning, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

• Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Persistence

• Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivation, Thinking

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2013.

• If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cake, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Inspirational, Want, Entrepreneurship

• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Determination, People

  YouTube Channel "RenewableEnergyZone"/"Interview With Elon Musk Tesla Motors", www.youtube.com. January 07, 2007.

• Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Glasses, Entrepreneur

• Don't be afraid of new arenas.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Arena

• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Horse, People

• When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, College, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Enlightenment, Strive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Order, Enlightenment

• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Engineering

• Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Reality, Perception

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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