I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

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

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.