“We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.”

industrialist and technologist, former public official

Elon Reeve Musk is an industrialist and technologist, and a former public official. He is the chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX, and has 186 quotes on the site. He has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025. In June 2026, he became the only trillionaire, and Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.1 trillion as of October 2026.