Elon Musk Quotes

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

At Apple, we believe that people with passion can change the world.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

I believe engineers will save the world.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

Only dreams give birth to change.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Science is the future of mankind.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.