Elon Musk was an American Entrepreneur born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. He co-founded and leads Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, and The Boring Company. He recently acquired Twitter in 2022. Click here to reveal the inspirational story of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk Motivational Quotes
Don’t confuse schooling with education. I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did
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Take risks now and do something bold. You won’t regret it
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Constantly think about how you could be doing things better. Keep questioning yourself.
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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.
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It’s ok to have your eggs in one basket, as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
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Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.
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Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough
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Great companies are built on great products.
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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
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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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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
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Elon Musk Quotes on Business
If you’re building a company, you’ve got to gather great people. I mean, all a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service. So depending upon how talented and hardworking that group is, and to the degree in which they are focused cohesively in a good direction, that will determine the success of the company. So, do everything you can to gather great people, if you’re creating a company.
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Starting a business is not for everyone. Generally, starting a business, I’d say, No. 1 is to have a high pain threshold. When you first start a company, there’s lots of optimism and things are great. Happiness at first is high, then you encounter all sorts of issues and happiness will steadily decline, and then you will go through a whole world of hurt, and then eventually, if you succeed—and in most cases, you will not succeed—if you succeed then, after a long time, you will finally get back to happiness.
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I’m not sure looking at competitors really helps. It’s sort of like the old adage with running. If you start looking at the other runners, it’s not good, you know.
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The thing to remember is that when companies are little, they’re like tadpoles. I mean, they just die very easily. You need to have an environment that tries to protect little companies and help them get bigger. Silicon Valley does that very well and America, in general, does that very well a lot of the time compared to other countries. Most other countries tend to foster and protect the big companies. Big companies don’t need protection.
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I read a lot of books and talked to lots of people. I didn’t have any one person who was a mentor, but I always looked for feedback from the people around me and feedback from the historical context, which is books, basically. I don’t read many general business books. I like to read biographies or autobiographies. I think those are pretty helpful, and a lot are not really business.
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I think it’s important to take feedback from your environment. You want to be as closed-loop as possible. If we hadn’t responded to what people said, then we probably would not have been successful. So, it’s important to look for things like that and focus on them when you see them, and you correct your prior assumptions.
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In general, people want to do the right thing and they want to do what’s good. The issue we have right now is that the rules fundamentally favor the bad outcome. When you’re fighting for the good outcome and it’s an uphill battle, it’s just slower. It’s just crazy to have the rules of the game favor a bad outcome.
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In order to make the right decisions, you have to understand something. If you don’t understand something at a detailed level, you cannot make a decision.
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