Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.

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.

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

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

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.