46 Elon Musk Quotes on Tesla, SpaceX and on how to be Elon basically (2022)

To the moon? To the moon! Since this page was first created in 2015 a lot has happened. Elon Musk has taken TESLA from the brink of bankruptcy to becoming the one car company forcing the rest of them to make the switch to making electric vehicles – or go under.

But Elon Musk is not done. Far from it. We are now awaiting his Masterplan part III, with fully functioning FSD, robotaxis, and the lovingly called ”Optimus” AI-driven robot. While at the same time bringing the monumental task of colonizing Mars to fruition.

A bright future is still in play.

Thank you Elon.

These Elon Musk quotes are not only a peak into Elon's mind, but also a piece of history as the quotes below "To the moon, indeed" are from his days of unbelievable struggle before Tesla was finally financially safe in mid 2020.

Enjoy.

Also, TSLA to the moon.

“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever. It is time to go forth, be out there among the stars, expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.”

– Elon Musk

“There is this little candle of consciousness on Earth. It hasn’t been around for very long, and it could easily go out. It could be a meteor, extreme climate change. Who knows? A third world war. Clearly, we need to preserve the light of consciousness into the future by becoming a multi-planet species, expecting life beyond Earth.”

– Elon Musk

“You know a factory is advanced if it feels like an alien dreadnought landed.”

– Elon Musk

“We took a lot of lessons learned from the factory at Fremont, where the buildings are all separate and there are a lot of movement between the buildings. The thing we thought would make sense is to think of it as a chip, like an integrated circuit. To combine everything into one package. Now it [Giga Texas] is the case of raw materials coming in on one side, they get formed into a cell, they get formed into a pack, then we cast the front and rear body, and the pack itself i structural – and out comes the finished product. So it’s raw materials in on one side, car comes out on the other.”

– Elon Musk

“We are building our own battery cells, what we think is the most advanced cell in the world, at Giga Texas. We think this will become the biggest cell factory in the world.”

– Elon Musk

“We are basically bringing to fruition the things we said we would do – to make the car out of three major pieces. With the [front and] rear body casting, and with the cells themselves carry load just like an airplane where the wing is a fuel tank in wing shape. With the new Model Y architecture the cells themselves carry load. That results in a car that is lighter, a small number of parts, costs less, and improves crash performance. So it’s a safety advantage too.”

– Elon Musk

“It’s kind of a crazy thing to make a car this way, it had never been done before. When we were trying to figure this out, there were six major casting manufacturers in the world we called. Five said ’no,’ one said ’maybe.’ I was like, ’that sounds like a ”yes”.’”

– Elon Musk

“If you make no stuff,
there is no stuff.

– Elon Musk

“In order to make a real difference to sustainability, we have to make a lot of cars, a lot of stationary packs, to transition the world to sustainable energy as quickly as possible.”

– Elon Musk

“Optimus will obviate what an ’economy’ even means. It will be able to do anything humans don’t want to do. It’s going to be an age of abundance. It may be hard to imagine, but as you see Optimus develop––we are going to make sure it’s safe, no Terminator or that kind of stuff––it’s going to transform the world to a degree even greater than the cars.”

– Elon Musk

“So, what’s next [for Tesla]? I’m not going to spill all the beens right now. But what I can say is that we are going to move to just truly massive scale.”

– Elon Musk

“To the moon, indeed.”

– Elon Musk

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

– Elon Musk

“If something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”

– Elon Musk

“Patience is virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson”

– Elon Musk

“Trying to build a company is like baking a cake, you have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion”

– Elon Musk

“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time”

– Elon Musk

“When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said: ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked out”

– Elon Musk

“I think life on earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be inspiring, even if it is vicarious”

– Elon Musk

“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules”

– Elon Musk

“I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you can do things better and question yourself”

– Elon Musk

“Some people doesn’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster”

– Elon Musk

“We knew it could be done. It was a question of how hard it would be and how long it would take us to sort it out”

– Elon Musk

“I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.”

– Elon Musk

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken”

– Elon Musk

“You have to make sure you charge right after the bombardment”

– Elon Musk

“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”

– Elon Musk

“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket”

– Elon Musk

“I would like to die on Mars.
Just not on impact”

– Elon Musk

“Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy”

– Elon Musk

“One should try to make the world a better place because the inverse makes no sense.””

– Elon Musk

“We should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask”

– Elon Musk

“The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment”

– Elon Musk

“I had a tough childhood, so maybe that was helpful”

– Elon Musk

“Honestly, if I never go to space, that will be okay. The point is to maximize the probable life span of humanity”

– Elon Musk

“We don’t necessarily need all of the money for the Gigafactory right now, but I decided to raise it in advance because you never know when there will be some bloody meltdown”

– Elon Musk

“I started to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. That was so helpful. You don’t know what you don’t know. You realize there are all these things out there”

– Elon Musk

“It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you’re not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it’s actually space that’s moving”

– Elon Musk

“I’m not sure why I’d want to talk about extremely sad events. It does no good for the future”

– Elon Musk

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

– Elon Musk

“SpaceX is in this for the long haul and, come hell or high water, we are going to make this work”

– Elon Musk

“Before starting I SpaceX, I was waiting for Nasa to send people up to Mars. Every year I was looking at the Nasa website and I was like, ’Well, it’s hard to f****….’ There just didn’t seem to be a date for when we’re sending people to Mars. We were able to go to the moon in ’69, and our last mission to the moon was in ’72. Now here we are a century later, and still we have not gone back to the moon.”

– Elon Musk

“Designing an orbital rocket not the mad scientist going ’Yeah, I got the idea!’ It’s just a monumental amount of work.”

– Elon Musk

“NASA called and told us that we’d won the $1,5 billion contract. And I couldn’t even hold the phone. I just blurted out ’I love you guys!’”

– Elon Musk

“People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else”

– Elon Musk

“I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future”

– Elon Musk

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