Elon Musk has 5 current jobs including Co-founder, CEO at Neuralink, Founder at The Boring Company, and Co-Founder, Product Architect & CEO at Tesla.
He is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla, and in space, via rocket producer SpaceX.
Top 25 quotes from Elon Musk that will inspire you to take on the impossible.
1. If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
2. Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.
3. I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
4. The first step is to establish that something is possible, then probability will occur.
5. I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
6. You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
7. Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it.
8. Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
9. Great companies are built on great products.
10. Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
11. If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.
12. Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.
13. I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
14. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
15. Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. Keep questioning yourself.
16. I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
17. If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
18. It’s ok to have your eggs in one basket, as long as you control what happens to that basket.
19. If you’re a co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do, If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed, No task is too menial.
20. People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
21. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
22. 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 be doing it better.
23. The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department, It needs to be through engineering and design.
24. My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
25. Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
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