Years Quotes by Elon Musk

14 Years quotes by Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s take on years is a compact set of ideas about speed, innovation, and long‑term vision. The 14 quotes give a quick pulse on how he frames time in the context of technology and goals.

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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…

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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a…

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Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

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I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric.…

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The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place…

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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I…

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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement…

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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled…

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Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds…

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For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough…

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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of…

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I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species.…

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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to…

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

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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…

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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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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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