Elon Musk Quotes

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.