My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

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.