Elon Musk Quotes

While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities, and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

There is so much in the world to care about.

If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

I believe engineers will save the world.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.