The world gives you money in exchange for something it perceives to be of equal or greater value: something that transforms an aspect of the culture, reworks a familiar story or introduces a new one, alters the way people think about the category and make use of it in daily life.

Justine Musk

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

Justine Musk

I love how feminism is often blamed for giving women too many choices. Like this is a bad thing.

Justine Musk

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Justine Musk

I had turned into a trophy wife - and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections.

Justine Musk

Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

Justine Musk

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

Justine Musk

From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.

Justine Musk

What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?

Justine Musk

Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).

Justine Musk

I don't believe that we - and this holds true for both genders - have as many choices as we seem to like to think.

Justine Musk

I've learned to separate my fears from my intuition and, at times, to follow my intuition through the fear.

Justine Musk

People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.

Justine Musk

A lot of people work extremely hard and through no fault of their own - bad luck, the wrong environment, unfortunate circumstances - struggle to survive.

Justine Musk

As a girlchild in the early-to-mid 1980s, I wasn't expected to like math. So I stopped liking math. As a young woman, I wasn't expected to have high self-esteem.

Justine Musk

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

Justine Musk

You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.

Justine Musk

I don't think it's that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.

Justine Musk

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.

Justine Musk

'Obsession' has a bad rap.

Justine Musk

Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.

Justine Musk