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:

• Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
• One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
• The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.
• When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
• Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Other Entrepreneurship :

• Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk.
• I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
• 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
• The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.
• Success is never accidental.
• If you really want to be happy, be happy and share happiness
• If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
• Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
• [Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
• Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.
• It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
• Stress comes from ignoring the things that you shouldn’t be ignoring.
• Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
• I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
• I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business.
• The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
• You are about to succeed when the urge to quit is the greatest.
• The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
• Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
• The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.

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