When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- There’s a single path to success. Yours.
- Losers read, winners skim.
- Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
- Entrepreneurship is all about energy
- Time doesn’t change things. It’s how we use our time that makes the difference.
- I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business.
- Instead of working at someone elses’s company to realize someone else’s dream, chase your own dreams.
- Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- True ambition is the desire to work harder for yourself than somebody else
- Don’t try to mine gold when you can sell shovels.
- Patience is a virtue not a vice.
- Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
- An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
- I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
- Good is the enemy of great
- At the earliest stage, the only people who can invest in you are three Fs: friends, family and fools.
- You learn more from failure than from successes. Failure builds character.
- Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
- Market like you OWN the Segment & Optimize as a Startup.
- Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.