Here are ten of my favorite Elon Musk quotes for motivation, education and to help you stay on the right path to your goals.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” – Elon Musk
“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.” – Elon Musk
“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.” – Elon Musk
“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve” – Elon Musk
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” – Elon Musk
“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.” – Elon Musk
“If you need inspiration, don’t do it.” – Elon Musk
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
“The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.” – Elon Musk
