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 :
- Procrastination is one of the loyal aides of poverty.
- Uninspired leaders can’t inspire.
- An entrepreneur is more useful and valuable to the economy than an economist.
- If you want to live a successful life then start making other people successful
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
- No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
- Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
- Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
- Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!
- INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.
- All things good happen by not managing time, but prioritizing attention.
- Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.
- There are a lot of paths to satisfaction and you need to find one that works for you.
- The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
- I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is ‘why not?’.
- The more customers you keep, the fewer customers you have to find.
- Without struggle, success has no value.
- Be so good they can’t ignore you.
- I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.