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.
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.
Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Just because you work, doesn’t mean you’re working on the right thing.
- Act and fail, but don’t fail to act.
- Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
- One life is enough to change this world
- Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- Big things begin with big thinking.
- Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
- Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure … but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
- In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
- Think big to see big.
- When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
- Don’t wait to be compelled to do great work.
- Save to invest, don’t save to save.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.