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 :

• Companies can’t be sold, they can only be bought.
• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
• Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
• To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
• Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.
• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
• People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
• Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don’t do anything new.
• The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
• You do not need to be perfect; you need to perfect your uniqueness.
• You can’t get rich thinking poor.
• Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
• Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
• If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.
• The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
• If you can dream it, you can do it.
• Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
• Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

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