Quotes by Elon Musk

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldnt even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, wed never have had the light bulb.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

In order for us to have a future thats exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where were a space-bearing civilization.

If you look at space companies, theyve failed either because theyve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

What Im trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so youre not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but its actually space thats moving.

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

Id like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation thats not just e-mail with a view.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where its possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.