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 :

• Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.
• Most people master the art of postponing the start.
• I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the nonsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.
• If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
• The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers.
• When you stay in your comfort zone, you are not learning.
• I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
• You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.
• Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.
• School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company.
• Don’t let other people define your vision of your future.
• In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.
• Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.
• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
• Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
• Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
• The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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