Elon Musk Quotes

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

There's always things that I can improve on.

There is always room for improvement, and I have always grown up knowing however well I have done, there is always something I could have done better.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

You can always get better and always improve so that's what I do.

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

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.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.