Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

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

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.