Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Know your margins; then focus on growing the business.
- The people who are right a lot, often change their minds.
- The customer is always right.even when they’re wrong.
- The more businesses you have, the less work you do.
- The world is round, so there is no corner for anyone to lean against
- Hungry people always win.
- Optimism doesn’t make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
- You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.
- You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.
- Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
- Success is not what you have, but who you are.
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.
- We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.
- Life begins when you start something, and blooms when you keep doing it.