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Thinking Quotes by Elon Musk

41 Thinking quotes by Elon Musk

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I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence, calling it a possible existential threat. Musk stresses the need for a constant feedback loop to keep improving ideas and actions. He also warns that we often value talent over personality and that new technologies start out expensive before becoming useful.

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

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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

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I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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

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I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

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Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

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I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we…

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People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and…

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I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the…

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Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

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I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it…

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It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will…

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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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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…

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The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on…

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To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life…

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I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we…

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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…

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Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's…

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I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I…

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Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make…

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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence…

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Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is…

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I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure…

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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…

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I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

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If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

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I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody…

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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

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I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is,…

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Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally…

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Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach…

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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a…

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It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to…

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I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a…

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Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I…

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Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I…

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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You…

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If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life…

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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…

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

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'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have…

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

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.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed…

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…

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.