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

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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

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

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

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.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

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.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

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

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.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

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