Elon Musk

businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)

· 1971 - sekarang · 99 kata bijak

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of April 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$809 billion.

Elon Musk

Sukses

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.

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Motivasi

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

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Elon Musk

Pendidikan

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

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Elon Musk

Motivasi

I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad

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Pendidikan

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

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Keluarga

I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.

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Motivasi

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

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Kehidupan

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.

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Kehidupan

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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Kehidupan

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

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Kehidupan

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.

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Kehidupan

Great companies are built on great products.

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Kehidupan

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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Elon Musk

Waktu

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

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Kreativitas

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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Keberanian

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

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Sukses

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

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Kehidupan

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

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Sukses

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

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Kehidupan

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

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