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 :
- Great companies are built on great products.
- If not now, when?
- There is no success or failure, there’s only life.
- Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success
- Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
- if you begin, you win.
- You lose 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Failure doesn’t define you, giving up does.
- Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant.
- A real influencer buys the mind to act not the heart to express.
- Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk.
- Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.
- You do not need to be perfect; you need to perfect your uniqueness.
- Kindness is the key to success
- It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
- What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- You have to work on the business first before it works for you.
- The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.
- People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome.
- Use your profession to fund your passion.