15 Inspirational quotes from Elon Musk

Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers. He achieved more success by founding X.com in 1999, SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk made headlines in May 2012 when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. Here are a few quotes which will inspire you forever.

1. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
2. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
3. “You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”
4. “It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”
5. “Physics is a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.”
6. “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.”
7. “My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”
8. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.”
9. “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
10. “I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.”
11. “Don’t be afraid of new arenas.”
12. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
13. "I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point."
14. “The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
15. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

Source - Quora