Elon Musk Quotes

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.