Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.
Don’t delude yourself into thinking something’s working when it’s not, or you’re gonna get fixated on a bad solution.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
- Do not focus on problems; focus on solutions!
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- 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.
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.
- If you always succeed, you don’t think big enough
- We figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product.
- Knowledge without action is meaningless.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
- Your margin is my opportunity.
- People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.
- 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.
- Without having a goal it is difficult to score!
- Turn your Why into Why not?
- If you try to be everything to everyone, you become nothing.
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.