I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars -… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. — Elon Musk Copy Share
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably… — Elon Musk Copy Share
Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. — Elon Musk Copy Share
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. — Elon Musk Copy Share
A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited… — Elon Musk Copy Share
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have… — Elon Musk Copy Share
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. — Elon Musk Copy Share
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed… — Elon Musk Copy Share
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… — Elon Musk Copy Share
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure. — Elon Musk Copy Share
