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:

• Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
• One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
• The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
• When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
• Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Other Entrepreneurship :

• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
• You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn’t amazing, it won’t matter. Nobody will watch.
• Do what you fear and fear disappears.
• You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
• The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
• The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.
• If price is what you communicate, don’t complain about lack of margins.
• Healthiness and happiness are dependent on each other
• If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together
• A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.
• If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.
• The goal is freedom.
• If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough
• The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
• Find something to aim for in life. Do not live an empty life.
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
• The Greatest success stories are beautifully painful
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
• If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.
• Life is very simple. Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

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