Elon Musk Quotes

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
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I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
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A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
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I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.
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SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.
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If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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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.
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
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