| When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” |
| “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.” |
| “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” |
| “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.” |
| “We’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.” |
| “If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic-being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.” |
| “It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.” |
| “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” |
| “When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.” |
| “There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.” |
| “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” |
Elon Musk Biography
| Born | 28 June 1971 (age 47 years), Pretoria, South Afric |
| Residence | Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Net worth | 2,090 crores USD (2019) |
| Spouse | Talulah Riley (m. 2013–2016), Talulah Riley (m. 2010–2012), Justine Musk (m. 2000–2008) |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (1997) |
| Children | Nevada Alexander Musk, Kai Musk, Xavier Musk, Griffin Musk, Damian Musk, Saxon Musk |
| Citizenship | South Africa (1971–present), Canada (1989–present),United States (2002–present) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, investor, engineer |
| Title | Founder, CEO, Lead Designer of SpaceX CEO, Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. Co-founder, CEO of Neuralink Founder of The Boring Company Co-founder of Zip2 Founder of X.com (later became PayPal) Co-founder of OpenAI Chairman of SolarCity |
| Parent(s) | Maye Musk (mother), Errol Musk (father) |
