Elon Musk

Quotes

• “Something will happen to Earth eventually, it's just a question of time. Eventually the sun will expand and destroy all ...”
• “It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight ... The most important message I'd like to send ...”
• “Sending large numbers of people to explore and settle Mars in the decades ahead isn't inevitable, but it is entirely pos...”
• “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It o...”
• “They [Apple] have hired people we've fired. We always jokingly call Apple the "Tesla Graveyard." If you don't make it at...”
• “The fundamental message that consumers should be taking today is that it's financially insane to buy anything other than...”
• “When a species of primate, homo sapiens, became much smarter than other primates, it pushed all the other ones into a ve...”
• “You are assuming that I wish to be popular. I don't care. I do care that millions of people may die needlessly for an es...”
• “Off the record. We haven't had a conversation at all. I sent you an off the record email, which very clearly and unambig...”
• “Nuke Mars refers to a continuous stream of very low fallout nuclear fusion explosions above the atmosphere to create art...”
• “RainbowQuotes features a curated collection of quotations attributed to Elon Musk, drawn from interviews, speeches, publ...”
• “We're adding a triple sign-off for all work done on the launch pad, on flight components, and flight critical GSE. You h...”
• “We are used to things improving every year; we are used to having a better cell phone next year than this year; a better...”
• “I don't think most people, even in the aerospace industry, like, know what question to ask. Like it took us a long time ...”
• “Imagine creating a huge software program that can only be tested in little pieces on a computer that is slightly differe...”
• “Only by breaking through to new paradigms of space travel will more than a handful of us ever get to Mars and make it a ...”
• “I think the reason it's cheaper is, first of all, we are a private entity and we have a very lean system in here. What w...”
• “Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will di...”
• “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary," as Musk famously said in 2008. In the 15 year...”
• “If we can be one of the companies that makes it possible for humans to become a multi-planetary species, that would be t...”
• “If we can build something that is capable of taking people and equipment to Mars, such that it can service a transportat...”
• “No, just like [Unsworth] didn't clarify he wanted to sodomize me with a submarine. I didn't think it required clarificat...”
• “So, I think the best analogy for rocket engineers, if you want to create complicated software, you can't run as an integ...”
• “I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for ...”
• “Eli was responding to a 26 October 2021 in response article by Eoin McSweeney and Adam Pourahmadi of CNN Business. It wa...”
• “If somebody wants to stay in their house, that's great. They should be allowed to stay in their house, and they should n...”
• “In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like...”
• “Leon's, I'll tell you what, Elon, Elon, is not going to buy Twitter. … He's got himself a mess. He said the other day, '...”
• “It's good to have talented people in the administration, but at the end of the day, if you look at our national debt, wh...”
• “[Comments from Christo Grozev of Bellingcat cited by Luce] "Musk is extremely influential. He has a cult following and h...”
• “I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time. That it would cause asphyxiation of society beca...”
• “Although I am new in the business, my team is not. I would say that, person for person, there has never been a better ro...”
• “I think that the whole notion of work from home is a bit like the fake Marie Antoinette quote, "Let them eat cake". It's...”
• “If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking bullshit. I don't ...”
• “The woke mind virus consists of creating very, very divisive identity politics…[that] amplifies racism; amplifies, frank...”
• “Elon has always been an introvert thinker. So where a lot of people would go to a great party and have a great time and ...”
• “Russia's slant on the world appears to have penetrated Musk's mind and he is by far Bellingcat's most famous detractor. ...”
• “Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn't ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don't, is neither good nor ...”
• “Post on X (9 March 2025), a response to Polish Foreign Minister after he implied any threats to shut down Starlink would...”
• “Do you still have a half billion dollar short position against Tesla?Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on clima...”
• “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country. U...”
• “You don't have to be an extrovert to succeed as an entrepreneur. That's because business success is about making smart d...”
• “So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or th...”
• “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia....”
• “I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for...”
• “The media is racist. For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against wh...”
• “It doesn't do a great deal to advance the goal of humanity. I would pay $20 million not to spend six months in Russia. A...”
• “Lies can indeed kill and, though there are of course many others, one of the world's most prolific enemies of truth is E...”
• “15 July 2018 referring to British diver Vern Unsworth, who participated in the Tham Luang cave rescue. As quoted in Elon...”
• “Don't advertise. If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself...”