Elon Musk may be an American business magnate, inventor, and self-made billionaire. But just most people, he also started from somewhere. In this article, writer Shivali Singla shares 10 Elon Musk quotes that will motivate you.

Elon Musk is an American business magnate, inventor, and a self-made billionaire. He is the founder and CEO of SpaceX and co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc. Musk is also a co-founder of  Neuralink, SolarCity, Zip2, and PayPal. During his childhood, he was an avid reader. He daydreamed in a trance-like manner and coded his own video games.

Musk stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. He dropped out of school at Stanford University to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the internet and more.

He sold his first company, Zip2, an online media services company, to Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Also, he founded another startup, X.com, that same year, which eventually became PayPal and was sold to eBay.

If you’re an entrepreneur, here are 10 motivation quotes from Musk that you need to hear.

Quote #1

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

Quote #2

“I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there.”

Quote #3

“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day.
Otherwise, it’s not.”

Quote #4

“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.”

Quote #5

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

Quote #6

“We’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.” 

Quote #7

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

Quote #8

“If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.” 

Quote #9

“People should pursue what they’re passionate about.
That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”

Quote #10

“There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

I hope you found these quotes helpful and inspiring as well. Stay tuned for more! Also, please share the post if you like it via social media buttons down below.

Which is your favorite quote? Until then!

The original article was first published in Shivali Singla’s blog.

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