I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.