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

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

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.