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

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

We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.