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

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.