If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.