"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all the tasks you might not want to do."
-- Elon Musk"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."
-- Elon Musk"You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better."
-- Elon Musk"Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not."
-- Elon Musk"Talent is extremely important... there's a multiplier from how those players work together."
-- Elon Musk"If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic."
-- Elon Musk"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
-- Elon Musk"It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
-- Elon Musk"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake."
-- Elon Musk"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time."
-- Elon Musk"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
-- Elon Musk"There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live."
-- Elon Musk"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
-- Elon Musk"The path to the CEO's office should be through engineering and design."
-- Elon Musk"Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
-- Elon Musk"Starting a business is not for everyone... have a high pain threshold."
-- Elon Musk"Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends."
-- Elon Musk"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day."
-- Elon Musk"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
-- Elon Musk"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."
-- Elon Musk"Great companies are built on great products."
-- Elon Musk"Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week."
-- Elon Musk"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
-- Elon Musk"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
-- Elon Musk
