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 :
- Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn’t angering the mediocre, it’s actually mediocre.
- If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
- Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.
- Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
- Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
- We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. We just want to make great products.
- Entrepreneurship is for those who don’t know how to quit
- The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
- I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
- Know your margins; then focus on growing the business.
- I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business.
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
- Help others. When you help others, you help yourself!
- If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough
- There is a hero in every heart just waiting for ignition.
- Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.
- Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
- Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
- A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
- In love and in business, trust is everything!