Elon Musk

b. 1971 · entrepreneur (Tesla, SpaceX)

Elon Musk is the businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, and one of the names fake quotes get pinned on most often online. His real quotations are well documented in interviews and in his own posts on X, so a line that appears nowhere in either deserves suspicion. This line’s real author is unknown. It is listed under Musk only because that is who the viral image named.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Elon Musk

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough”

Verified

“How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one”

Verified

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur”

Attributed

“I'm simply trying to do the greatest amount of good with the limited time I have on Earth”

Disputed

Not actually Elon Musk

Often misattributed to Elon Musk

Famous lines widely pinned on Elon Musk that we’ve traced to someone else.

“I'd rather drink sewer water than see Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl”

actually Esspots (satire website)

“I'm simply trying to do the greatest amount of good with the limited time I have on Earth”

Unknown (pinned on Elon Musk)

“This country's billionaires are tired of subsidizing everyone else's schools, parks, health care”

actually Anonymous satirist

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