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" If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur. "

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" If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. "

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" The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. "

" I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. "

" A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. "

Elon Musk

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" If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not. "

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

" People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else. "

" I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google. "

" We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy. "

" There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have. "

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. "

" I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA. "

" In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. "

Elon Musk

Space

Order

" If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things. "

" I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid. "

" Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. "

" Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. "

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

" The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event. "

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

" The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor. "

Elon Musk

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" It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. "

" Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner. "

" Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. "

" 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. "

" It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car. "

" A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage. "

" There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing. "

" There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. "