Elon Musk Quotes

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

In the long run, competition makes us better... it drives innovation.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.