[Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
[Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
- The goal is freedom.
- Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.
- Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- How you handle success says a lot about you.
- Build systems and methods that incubate ideas, facilitate cooperation and spark growth.
- Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
- don’t wait for opportunity, create it
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.
- Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
- The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Sometimes failure is the beginning of success
- Startups don’t just die, they commit suicide
- Those who dare to think, and act with a plan, will eventually prosper.
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Never expect to be known without doing some impossible work.
- To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
- Failure doesn’t define you, giving up does.