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 :
- don’t wait for opportunity, create it
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Entrepreneur, get creative or live stagnant. ~
- Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.
- Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
- Success lives on your sweat. Determination makes it pleasurable. Action makes it attainable.
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
- if you really want to become a rich, then start sharing everything you have
- Never expect to be known without doing some impossible work.
- You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.
- You do not need to be perfect; you need to perfect your uniqueness.
- Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.
- Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple.
- You don’t get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
- Lesson learned – in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.
- Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.