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 :
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.
- Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
- The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
- The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- There are a lot of paths to satisfaction and you need to find one that works for you.
- If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
- It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.
- An entrepreneur is an innovator, a job creator, a game―changer, a business leader, a disruptor, an adventurer.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- Entrepreneur, get creative or live stagnant. ~
- After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions What did I do right? and What would I do differently?
- Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Don’t try to follow trends. Create them.
- Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.
- Remain self-funded as long as possible.
- A dream with a deadline is a goal.