25 Elon Musk phrases to meet the richest man in the world

Life is too short for long-term disagreements.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass looking into the abyss of death.

Patience is a virtue. And I’m learning to have it. It’s a tough lesson.

I never give up, I would need to be dead or completely incapacitated.

The CEO’s path should not be through the CFO’s office or through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

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

I say something and then it usually happens. Maybe not on time, but it usually happens.

We’ll make it happen. As God is my witness, I am completely committed to making it work.

If you wake up in the morning and think the future will be better, it’s a good day. If not, it’s not.

People should go after what makes them happy. It will make them even happier than anything else.

It’s okay to keep all your eggs in one basket as long as you control everything that happens in the basket.

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

Building a business is like baking a cake. You need to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

Failure is a possibility. If things aren’t failing, you’re not innovating enough.

I think this is the best advice of all: constantly think about how you can do things better and question yourself.

When Henry Ford produced cheap, reliable cars, people said, “No, we have horses.” He made a big bet. And it worked.

The future of humanity has two possibilities: either it will become multiplanetary or it will remain confined to one planet and eventually experience an extinction event.

People work best when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people want to go to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

The odds of me getting into this rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, having never built anything, I mean, I’d have to be a nut if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Starting a business is not for everyone. The first piece of advice I can give you is: limit your pain more.

I think it’s very important to live in a feedback loop, where you’re always thinking about what you’ve done and how you could do it better. That’s the best advice I can give: question yourself and never stop improving.