People Quotes

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

We have so much information but maybe we don't know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don't need young museums but we do need holy young people.

An authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.

I mean, my mind is a storm, and I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

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.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.