Frases de Elon Musk

“O futuro da humanidade possui duas possibilidades: ou vai se tornar multiplanetário ou vai permanecer confinado em um planeta e eventualmente passar por um evento de extinção.”

“Ser um empreendedor é como comer vidro e encarar o abismo da morte.”

“Preste muito atenção aos feedbacks negativos e peça por eles, particularmente dos seus amigos. Poucos fazem isso e é incrivelmente útil.”

“Qualquer produto que precise de um manual para funcionar está mal feito.”

“Criar uma empresa é como fazer um bolo. Você precisa ter todos os ingredientes na proporção certa.”

“Pessoas trabalham melhor quando sabem qual é o objetivo e o porquê. É importante que as pessoas tenham vontade de ir trabalhar de manhã e curtir trabalhar.”

“Uma empresa é um grupo organizado para criar um produto ou serviço, e o que determina sua qualidade são os funcionários e quão empolgados estão em criar. Eu quero sim reconhecer um milhão de pessoas super talentosas. Eu sou apenas a face das empresas.”

“Algumas pessoas não gostam de mudanças, mas você precisa abraçar a mudança se a alternativa for desastre.”

“Quando Henry Ford criou carros baratos e bons, as pessoas disseram: Nah… o que há de errado com cavalos?. Essa foi uma aposta enorme que ele fez e funcionou.”

“Começar um negócio e fazê-lo crescer é tanto sobre inovação, vontade e determinação das pessoas quanto é sobre o produto que vendem.”

“A vida é curta demais para desentendimentos de longo prazo.”

“O primeiro passo é estabelecer que algo é possível”

“Meu maior defeito provavelmente é pesar de mais o talento de alguém e não sua personalidade. Acredito que o fato de alguém ter um bom coração é importante.”

“Eu digo algo e geralmente ela acontece. Talvez não no calendário previsto, mas geralmente acontece.”

“Quando algo é importante o suficiente, você realiza mesmo que as chances não estejam a seu favor.”

“Gostaria de morrer em Marte. Só que não no impacto.”

“Acredito ser muito importante ter um ciclo de feedbacks, onde você está constantemente pensando sobre o que fez e como poderia ter feito melhor.”

“Se o projeto demorar muito para ser construído, é um projeto ruim.”

“It would be an incredible adventure. And life needs to be more than just solving every day problems. You need to wake up and be excited about the future”

“I believe there’s some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.”

“I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”

“Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball--or go extinct.”

“I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.”

“Which means we’re cheaper than the Chinese, cheaper than [the] Russians or anywhere else – and we’re doing it in the United States with American labour costs.”

“This is the chance to fulfill a dream.”

“I don’t get the little ship thing. You can’t show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing.”

“Although I am new in the business, my team is not. I would say that, person for person, there has never been a better rocket company in existence, in history. I don’t think there has ever been a group this talented in one place, in one company, developing a rocket – ever.
If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking ########. I don’t need to work, from a standard of living point of view, but I do, you know. I work every day and on weekends and I haven’t taken a vacation for years.”

“Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.”

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

“Well, I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.”

“The answer was we thought it could be done.”

“The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.”

“I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.”

“So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.”

“I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.”

“Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.”

“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”

“Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!”

“History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha.”

“Whoever thought owning the libs would be cheap never tried to acquire a social media company!”

“A good sign as to whether there is free speech is, "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?"”

“I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.”

“In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more 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.”

“Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.”

“We're adding a triple sign-off for all work done on the launch pad, on flight components, and flight critical GSE. You have a technician, a responsible engineer, and then quality assurance will sign the final, record all information, and take photographs of all the work that was done, and then make sure that all information is put into our quality assurance database, which is reviewed prior to launch.”

“SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.”

“Getting to Mars is too big an accomplishment for us to feel proud by just by swinging by. We are a nation of enterprise as well as exploration, and we're not about to go there without making something of it.”