Elon Musk

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you go back 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.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.