You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Trying to build a company is like baking a cake, you have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said: ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked out.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.

I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I think life on earth must be about more than just solving problems. It’s got to be inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you can do things better and question yourself.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.