The 21 Most Inspirational Elon Musk Quotes

　　美國著名特斯拉汽車 (TESLA Motors)CEO埃隆·馬斯克的21句勵志名言

　　(譯： Kevin W)

　　1. "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it." 如果一件事情對你很重要，即使成功的概率很小，你也應該去做

　　2. "(Physics is) a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there." 物理是思想的框架。 。。。追索到事情的本質，再從那里思考下去

　　3. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur." 只有首先看到事情的可能性，才會有發生的機會

　　4. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket." 只要你能左右一顆樹的未來，那么你是可以在那棵樹上吊死的

　　5. "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up." 堅持很重要， 永遠不要放棄，除非不得已

　　6. "You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse." 每個人都幻想將來會更好，而不是更糟

　　7. "It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive." 雇傭許多人去做一件復雜的事，往往是錯誤的。數量永遠不如質量 (三個臭皮匠不一定比一個諸葛亮強)，人多降低效率，增加成本。

　　9. "If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago." 其實我們現在擁有的一切，在幾百年前都是不可思議的魔術奇跡

　　10. "My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart." 我犯下的最大錯誤是過度看中人的才能而不是人品。我認為擁有一顆善良的心至關重要。

　　11. "When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am." 我在大學的時候，一直想參與做能夠改變世界的事情。而現在我就在做這樣的事情

　　12. "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." 我認為循環反饋很重要，這樣你可以及時知道自己做得怎么樣，是否可以做得更好。最好的忠告是： 重復問自己，我是否可以做得更好?

　　13. "I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system." 我不敢說自己從未擔心害怕過。 實際上我希望少一點擔心害怕，因為它讓我分心，使我焦慮

　　14. "Life is too short for long-term grudges." 生命太短暫，它無法承受無休止的恩恩怨怨

　　15. "Don't be afraid of new arenas." 不要害怕新的競技場

　　16. "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." 我想一個平常人完全可以選擇不平常

　　17. "I could either watch it happen or be a part of it." 我要么旁觀，要么參與

　　18. "Being an Entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death." 做一個企業家就像吞玻璃和凝視著死亡深淵

　　19. "I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." 我情愿在火星上死去，而不是墜毀其上

　　20. On his favorite book when he was a teen, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": It taught me that the tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but that once you do that, the rest is really easy." 關于少年時期最喜歡的書“銀河系漫游指南“： 它教會我最難的是提出問題。 一旦做到了，其它會變得很容易

　　21. "I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point." 我只希望在自己衰老前退休，否則我只會成為累贅