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“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”
― Elon Musk

“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”
― Elon Musk

“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.”
― Elon Musk

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
― Elon Musk

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”
― Elon Musk

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
― Elon Musk

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
― Elon Musk

“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing tht makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”
― Elon Musk

“The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.”
― Elon Musk

“In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.”
― Elon Musk

“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.”
― Elon Musk

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”
― Elon Musk, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”
― Elon Musk

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.  ”
― Elon Musk

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future”
― Elon Musk

“I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.”
― Elon Musk, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn't fair to blame hell.”
― Elon Musk

“I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents”
― Elon Musk

“When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say.”
― Elon Musk