Great companies are built on great products.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

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

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.