What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

— Elon Musk

Elon Musk Quotes

Don’t do this.

— Elon Musk
Elon Musk On Boring Company Flamethrower

Also, I want to be clear that a flamethrower is a super terrible idea. Definitely don’t buy one. Unless you like fun.

— Elon Musk
Elon Musk On Boring Company Flamethrower

Buy an overpriced Boring Company fire extinguisher! You can definitely buy one for less elsewhere, but this one comes with a cool sticker.

— Elon Musk
Elon Musk On Boring Company Flamethrower

[The Flamethrower] May not be used on Boring Company decorative lacquered hay bales or Boring Company dockside munitions warehouses.

— Elon Musk
Elon Musk On Boring Company Flamethrower

Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?

— Elon Musk

Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.

— Elon Musk
Motivational for Work Work Ethic Ambition About Work

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

— Elon Musk

You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.

— Elon Musk

You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.

— Elon Musk
Financial Success

I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

— Elon Musk

I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.

— Elon Musk

They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.

— Elon Musk

Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.

— Elon Musk

One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.

— Elon Musk

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

— Elon Musk

If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.

— Elon Musk

I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.

— Elon Musk

When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength – 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.

— Elon Musk

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say.

— Elon Musk

If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn’t fair to blame hell.

— Elon Musk
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