There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.