Elon Musk

The problem with humanity is that it's just so damn hard to get rid of.

I hope you don’t think I’m trying to be manipulative. I’m not. I’m just trying to make sure that humanity has a future.

Actually, I'm an alien.

The DNA of a company is the people that it hires.

You can't create a culture of excellence by tolerating mediocrity.

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

I think it's important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The rumor that I’m building a spaceship to get back to my home planet is totally untrue.

I think the goal of humanity should be to become a multi-planet species.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of information from anywhere in the world. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in SolarCity. I had to borrow money for rent.

You're going to get some pretty intense experiences if you try to make something happen.

The future of humanity is fundamentally going to diverge in one of two directions: Either we're going to become a multi-planet species and a spacefaring civilization, or we're going to be stuck on one planet until some extinction event, natural or man-made, takes us out.

I think the most important thing is to make sure that we have a path to a sustainable energy future, and to become a multi-planet species.

The reality is that we're a very small, fragile planet and we're not going to be here forever.

Let that sink in.

Go woke, go broke.

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.

Cancel culture needs to be canceled.