Elon Musk Quotes

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

There's not enough good things in the world.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

I think that's our problem in Europe: we used to be a bit negative on everything. That's good sometimes, but when it's too much... It's not good.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

In the production, it's my job to find every flaw and the ones that can't be fixed, and that's why my job kind of sucks. My first reaction to everything is: here's the 20 things that are wrong with it. Unfortunately, that's how I have to live.

For I am nothing if not critical.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

It's easy to be negative.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.