Top 200 Elon Musk Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.”

— Elon Musk

102. “I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.”

— Elon Musk

103. “I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.”

— Elon Musk

104. “If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.”

— Elon Musk

105. “I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”

— Elon Musk

106. “Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”

— Elon Musk

107. “If heat death of the universe is the destination, it really is all about the journey.”

— Elon Musk

108. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.”

— Elon Musk

109. “People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”

— Elon Musk

110. “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.”

— Elon Musk

111. “The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.”

— Elon Musk

112. “If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.”

— Elon Musk

113. “Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”

— Elon Musk

114. “For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.”

— Elon Musk

115. “Humans need to be a multiplanet species.”

— Elon Musk

116. “You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.”

— Elon Musk

117. “The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”

— Elon Musk

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

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

— Elon Musk

120. “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”

— Elon Musk

121. “You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.”

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122. “To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it’s gone. I think we should establish life on another planet – Mars in particular – but we ’re not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.”

— Elon Musk

123. “Don’t do this.”

— Elon Musk

124. “I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.”

— Elon Musk

125. “Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.”

— Elon Musk

126. “Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.”

— Elon Musk

127. “As a child I would just question things...”

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128. “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don’t have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.”

— Elon Musk

129. “I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.”

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130. “Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.”

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131. “Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?”

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132. “In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.”

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133. “People often mistake technology for a static picture. It’s less like a picture and more like a movie. It’s the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It’s the acceleration.”

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134. “Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.”

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135. “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.”

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

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137. “Even if there’s a zombie apocalypse, you’ll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.”

— Elon Musk

138. “I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”

— Elon Musk

139. “The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.”

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140. “My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.”

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141. “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.”

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142. “Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.”

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143. “Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.”

— Elon Musk

144. “I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”

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145. “I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.”

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146. “The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning. And, you know, try and enjoy yourself. Because, actually, life’s pretty good. It really is.”

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147. “There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”

— Elon Musk

148. “Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.”

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149. “We have a strict ‘no a-hole policy’ at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they’re fired.”

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150. “The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.”

— Elon Musk