"I just want to retire before I..." - Quote by Elon Musk

“For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

“There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.”

“I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.”

“I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.”

“There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.”

“I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"”

“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”