Maye Musk:
“I think being richest person of the world wasn't his goal. His goal was just to do good things. He saw so many opportunities where he could do good things.”
“Making life multiplanetary on Mars really is about preserving the light of consciousness. There is no political or personal agenda! If someone else was doing it, that would be great, but there isn’t.”
– Elon Musk
Elon Musk:
“The biggest mistake I've made is to put too much weighting on somebody's talent and not enough on their personality.
It actually matters whether somebody has a good heart.”
Elon Musk:
“The capabilities we unlock by making space-based data centers a reality will fund and enable self-growing bases on the Moon, an entire civilization on Mars and ultimately expansion to the Universe.”
Elon Musk:
“In order to be highly motivated, you have to have some philosophical foundation. In my case, it was that we want to expand the scope and scale of consciousness to better understand the nature of the universe.”
Elon Musk:
“I generally would recommend for leaders of the world to just literally post your own stuff. Once in a while, you make a mistake. Don't worry about it. Can't win them all.”
Elon Musk:
“We tend to get in other countries' business a bit too much. I'm more of a fan of the Monroe Doctrine, of letting other countries do their thing, and we'll just be cool here.”
Elon Musk:
“I feel fear quite strongly. It's not as though I have the absence of fear. But there are times when something is important enough, you believe in it enough, that you do it in spite of fear.”