Elon Musk is a risk taker; he's an innovator and dares to dream the big dreams. Further, he has the ability to actually make them happen. He's kind of a Badass. How does he do it?

This man is so extraordinarily successful and intelligent that we'd be fools not to listen to him. See what you can learn from these innovation and success quotes from Elon Musk:
 1. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk
 2. "Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster." - Elon Musk
 3. "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." - Elon Musk
 4. "The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design." - Elon Musk
 5. "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up." - Elon Musk
 6. "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." - Elon Musk
 7. "There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering." - Elon Musk
 8. "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket." - Elon Musk
 9. "Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product." - Elon Musk
 10. "I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company." - Elon Musk
 11. "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." - Elon Musk
 12. "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." - Elon Musk
 13. "People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working." - Elon Musk
 14. "If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial." - Elon Musk
 15. "I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens." - Elon Musk
 16.  "I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium." - Elon Musk
 17. "I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems." - Elon Musk
 18. "I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself." - Elon Musk
 19. "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." - Elon Musk
 20. "I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done." - Elon Musk
 21. "I don't believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that 'it's all about the process,' I see that as a bad sign. 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." - Elon Musk
 22. "Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell." - Elon Musk
 23. "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur." - Elon Musk
 24. "There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions." - Elon Musk
 25. "Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ." - Elon Musk
 26. "Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour workweeks and you're putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve." - Elon Musk
 27. "I've actually not read any books on time management." - Elon Musk
 28. "I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'" - Elon Musk
 29. "Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful." - Elon Musk
 30. "If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not." - Elon Musk