If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

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.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.