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

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

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

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

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

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventure.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.