When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Similar Elon Musk quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Failure implies a failed day not a failed life.
- Always make your future bigger than your past.
- We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
- The only predictable thing about startups is their unpredictability
- The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
- 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.
- Without having a goal it is difficult to score!
- Success lives on your sweat. Determination makes it pleasurable. Action makes it attainable.
- Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
- (It is not good to) weigh too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- Many companies describe themselves as customer-focused, but few walk the walk. Most big technology companies are competitor focused.
- Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.
- All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.
- You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
- Entrepreneur, don’t just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.
- A dream with a deadline is a goal.
- If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.
- If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.