15 Elon Musk Quotes To Inspire You And Make You Believe Anything Is Possible

At age 12 Elon Musk taught himself computer programming and created a video game called Blastar which he sold to a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500.

He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX;co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and co-founder and CEO of Neuralink.

Among his plans to reduce the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on mars, he has also proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion.

Here are 15 inspiring Elon Musk quotes to make you believe anything is possible.

1. I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

2. 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.

3. There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

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

5. Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

6. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

7. I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.

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

9. It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understaknd 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.

10. I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.

11. No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

12. I could go and buy one of the islands in the

Bahamas and turn it into a personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and create a new company.

13. 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.

14. I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.