Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold