The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

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.