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 :
- Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
- Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk.
- The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
- Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
- I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
- Big things start small.
- Stop writing caption. Go action!
- School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company.
- Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.
- Success is like an iceberg. Nobody sees the work that comprises it.
- Focusing is about saying no. And you’ve got to say no, no, no. When you say no, you piss off people.
- Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.
- You have to make your own chances.
- The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
- It’s not what you got, but what you gave.
- Life can be so easy once we stop trying so hard to complicate it.
- Start with the customer and work backward