Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.