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

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

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.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.