Elon Musk

"The most entertaining outcome is the most likely."

"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."

"My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world."

"I think human augmentation is sort of like an arms race."

"What makes life exciting is doing things that actually have an impact on the world."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to the basket."

"I think the future is going to be interesting to watch."

"You need to be in the position of a learner. You should be willing to admit what you don't know."

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

"Life is too short to hang out with people who are not making you happy."

"Physics is the law. Everything else is a recommendation."

"Don't delude yourself into thinking something's going to work when it won't."

"Being an idiot is not a crime. Now, if it was, I'd be in jail."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"There's a way to do it better. Find it."

"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."

"Burning money is a bad idea. If you run out of money, the company dies."

"I think life on Earth is increasingly precarious."

"Every mode of transport that we see around us is electric except for rockets."

"You have to get the physics right. Even if the initial market is small, you expand the market by solving the physics problem."

"I am a big fan of facts and reasoning."

"You need to make sure that the people who work for you are doing meaningful work."

"One of the biggest mistakes of past leaders and politicians has been assuming that they know the future."

"If you're not adding some value to the world, then you shouldn't exist."

"I'm interested in sustainable energy and making life multi-planetary."

"The goal of Tesla is not to create a company but to accelerate sustainable energy."

"Life is too short to spend it being angry at people."

"I think computer science is a terrible name for what we do."

"Doubt is useful for a moment, but we must move past it."