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 :
- The way to screw up somebody’s life is to give them what they want.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- Instead of visualizing the price of failure try visualizing the rewards of success. You’ll make it.
- Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
- The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.
- In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment however you define it.
- If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think. Whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.
- If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.
- You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
- It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
- Speak less than you know; have more than you show.
- If you don’t become the pioneer of your education, you’ll be the slave of someone else’s dream.
- No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
- It’s called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don’t wait. Just ship.
- S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
- Opinions killed more people than crime
- Don’t try to mine gold when you can sell shovels.
- The only predictable thing about startups is their unpredictability
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.