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 :
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
- Uninspired leaders can’t inspire.
- I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
- The secret to successful entrepreneurship is to couple your passion with strategy, and your drive with patience.
- Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- Everyone has a boss, and a business owner’s boss is the customer.
- Make it happen, or it won’t.
- Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
- You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
- Dreams become nightmares when dreams become jobs.
- Impatience destroys at least 98% of hard work’s potential.
- The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
- You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
- My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- Do what you love and love what you do.
- Opinions killed more people than crime
- In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.