My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.