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 :
- If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
- Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.
- We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. We just want to make great products.
- Be bold to begin.
- Your mental energy links to your physical energy. Without it, your mind will suffer.
- Life isn’t about having, it’s about experiencing.
- Instead of visualizing the price of failure try visualizing the rewards of success. You’ll make it.
- As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt.
- If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.
- A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
- How to change the world in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W. 1. START – Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust. 2. NOW – No Opportunity Wasted
- There are no overnight success. It’s a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.
- Stop Pitching Product, Sell your Value!
- Knowledge without action is meaningless.
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
- Turn your Why into Why not?
- A real influencer buys the mind to act not the heart to express.