I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

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.

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

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.