Elon Musk Spacex Quotes

#1. There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#2. SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Elon Musk

#3. I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

Michael Parenti

#4. I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Elon Musk

#5. I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Elon Musk

#6. Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#7. To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

Elon Musk

#8. My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

Elon Musk

#9. SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Elon Musk

#10. They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.

Elon Musk

#11. I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

Elon Musk

#12. I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

Michael Rosenbaum

#13. We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

Elon Musk

#14. This," he ran a finger down my lips lightly, as more tears fell on my cheeks, " ... is over.

S.C. Stephens

#15. If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn ... if you live.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Elon Musk