The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

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

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

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

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.