Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.