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Elon Musk

(1971) Financier

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Elon Musk is a financier.

Quick Facts About Elon Musk

Born: June 28, 1971
Profession: Financier

About Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and former public official who is the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the first and only trillionaire in terms of US dollars in mid June 2026; as of June 29, 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$1 trillion.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Elon Musk · Page 2

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

Biofuels

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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

How

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If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a…

Any

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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…

Done

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When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I…

Alone

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Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from…

Forget

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The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

Builds

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Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

I think

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My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an…

Backgrounds

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The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

Asks

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Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Becoming

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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…

Billions

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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Commit

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My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

Family

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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Happens

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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it…

Business

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Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Criticism

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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in…

Consumption

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It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over…

Access

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The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most…

Achieve

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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…

Biggest mistake

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There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Ass

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Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

Break

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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…

Able

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Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

America

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