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" A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies. "

Elon Musk

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" I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium. "

" 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. "

" My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. "

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

" I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax. "

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" I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. "

" 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. "

" You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. "

" Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. "

" In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business. "

" Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right. "

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" It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will. "

" Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence. "

" Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. "

" It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. "

" It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. "

" Great companies are built on great products. "

" It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving. "

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

" Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. "

" Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. "

" I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia. "

" If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation. "

" I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?' "

" I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens. "

" The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. "

" My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. "

" Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. "