Elon Musk (2011): I'm for Smaller Government and More Free Enterprise

Elon Musk in 2011: I'm a proponent of smaller government, not bigger government.

“I think it's tough for the government to do things efficiently. So, I'm generally a proponent of smaller government, not bigger government. You want to minimize government participation in the economy.

That doesn't mean getting rid of it, but it's just saying you have to think really carefully before government does something versus free enterprise does something.

Free enterprise is always going to be more efficient.

There are things that the government should do, like basic physics research, and obviously I think we'd rather have a government army than a private army and a government justice system than a private justice system, and also things like the Hubble and the Mars rovers.”

The Motley Fool, September 2011