They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.
They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.
Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- When you truly love or want what you are pursuing, holding on can never be harder than giving up.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
- Dream big but always plan small
- Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
- Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.
- Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.
- If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
- You lose respect when you demand respect.
- You can’t achieve major goals with minimal effort.
- Always do what you love in order to love what you do.
- Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
- I want to put a ding in the universe