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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 9

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Enough

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The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Carbon

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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…

Car

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I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if…

Able

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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…

Artificial intelligence

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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…

About

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If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to…

Company

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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

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I've actually not read any books on time management.

Actually

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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

Car

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That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

Lessons

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It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a…

Government

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I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla…

Business

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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…

Critical

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People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of…

Acceleration

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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…

Alternatives

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Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So…

Automobile

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One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the…

Advice

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

Guy

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Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an…

Business

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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that.…

Able

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We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.

Person

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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I…

Born

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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…

Behave

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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…

Enough

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