"I don't create companies for the sake..." - Quote by Elon Musk

“I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.”

“There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.”

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

“A day without writing was a little death.”

“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”

“Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

“If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems”