Spacex's Quotes

#1. Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.

Henry Spencer

#2. I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

Gwynne Shotwell

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

Elon Musk

#4. Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

Gary Chapman

#5. Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

Nicola Formichetti

#6. 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

#7. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Alexander Hamilton

#8. We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.

Scott Kelly

#9. In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Solomon Ortiz

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.

Gwynne Shotwell

#13. Rockets, in general, had come on in leaps and bounds since the market had become competitive in the early twenty-first century. Initially, Spacex and Virgin grabbed the headlines, but when Amazon and Trader Joe's joined in, the prices plummeted. So

Ian Thompson

#14. As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.

Rusty Schweickart

#15. One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O'Neill

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

Elon Musk

#17. We believe SpaceX will become the world leader in space transport, and we want our investors to be part of that future.

Luke Nosek

#18. SpaceX is in this for the long haul and, come hell or high water, we are going to make this work." Musk

Ashlee Vance

#19. 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

#20. To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

Richie Norton

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. At twenty-three, Hollman was young, single, and willing to give up any semblance of having a life in favor of working at SpaceX nonstop, and he became Mueller's second in command.

Ashlee Vance

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

Elon Musk

#25. 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

#26. People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

Arundhati Roy

#27. Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity - they are all expressions of Musk. SpaceX is Musk.

Ashlee Vance

#28. SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Henry Spencer

#29. I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Luke Nosek

#30. It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.

Tipper Gore

#31. back to 2004. SpaceX needed an actuator that would trigger the gimbal

Ashlee Vance

#32. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

Lana Del Rey