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 :
- One life is enough to change this world
- There is no success or failure, there’s only life.
- Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.
- Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
- What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
- Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
- Don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- There is no shortcut to success.
- If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.
- Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
- Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
- Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.
- There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass―covering.
- Uncovering the right problem is half the solution.
- Living in the past makes your future predictable.
- Hungry people always win.
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
- If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.