I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.