It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. - Elon Musk
Founders should run the company for as long as they reasonably can. You should only consider passing over the reins to somebody as good or better than you are at creating great products. - Elon Musk
I’m a bigger fan of Edison than Tesla because Edison brought his stuff to the market and made those inventions accessible to the world, whereas Tesla didn’t really do that. - Elon Musk
It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. - Elon Musk
I think the United States is more open to new ideas than any country in the world. And I think becomes somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that because the United States is open to new ideas, it attracted people from the world who had new ideas. - Elon Musk
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. - Elon Musk
The moment the person leading a company thinks numbers have value in themselves, the company’s done. The moment the CFO becomes CEO—it’s done. Game over. - Elon Musk