Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

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.