"I don't care about the money. I care about the mission."
-- Elon Musk"I think it's important to have a sense of humor. Life is too short to take everything so seriously."
-- Elon Musk"If you're an engineer and your goal is to build a better rocket, you don't care if people think you're a genius or a fool."
-- Elon Musk"I've had a lot of luck in my life, and I've also worked very hard."
-- Elon Musk"When someone has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing. It's usually a whole bunch of things."
-- Elon Musk"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology."
-- Elon Musk"I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring."
-- Elon Musk"The talent for making money is not the same as the talent for creating value."
-- Elon Musk"Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world."
-- Elon Musk"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
-- Elon Musk"Unify all of your work under the roof of one giant goal to have a bigger impact on the world."
-- Elon Musk"Don't let anything hold you back. Imagination is the limit. Go out there and create some magic."
-- Elon Musk"Creating a neural lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines."
-- Elon Musk"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
-- Elon Musk"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles."
-- Elon Musk"If somebody is doing something that is useful to the rest of society, I think that's a good thing."
-- Elon Musk"I do think a good framework for thinking is physics, you know, the first principles reasoning."
-- Elon Musk"I think people can choose to be not ordinary. They can choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions."
-- Elon Musk"Take risks now. Do something bold. You won't regret it."
-- Elon Musk"Try to be useful."
-- Elon Musk"Answering questions is easy, asking the right questions is what's hard."
-- Elon Musk"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
-- Elon Musk"I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents."
-- Elon Musk"Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed."
-- Elon Musk