Maye Musk reveals the one piece of advice Elon ignored: ‘He doesn’t listen to me’
Musk's mother says his curiosity and ambition were apparent from childhood, recalling profound observations he made at age three
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Long before Elon Musk was running multiple companies at once, his mother, Maye Musk, had a much simpler recommendation: pick one.
Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, joined FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on "Varney & Co." to discuss her son’s ambitions, his childhood and the advice he ignored before taking on some of his biggest ventures.
Maye Musk reflects on her son Elon Musks' ambitions and the advice he chose not to follow. (Tyler Boye/WWD/Penske Media / Getty Images)
Maye recalled a conversation with Elon after PayPal, when he was weighing what to pursue next.
"And that…came later after PayPal, when he said to me, should I do electric cars, or rockets, or solar energy? And I say, you've just worked so hard, just do one. So you see, he doesn't listen to me," Musk said.
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Instead, she said, her son went on to pursue several companies despite widespread doubts about whether they would succeed.
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"And then he did six companies, and they were all going to fail. Remember? Everybody's fail, fail, fail and now I'm so proud of him," she said.
Maye said she noticed her son thought differently from an early age, recalling how he would become absorbed in deep thought as a young child before making observations that surprised her.
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"He was different because he would go into deep thoughts," she said, adding that he was making profound observations as young as three years old.
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Looking back, Maye said her son's ability to recognize, describe and figure things out was apparent when he was a child.
"He could recognize things, and he can describe it, and I was saying, 'that's three-year-old, you know. He can figure out things,'" she said.
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