Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success