“Actually, we still operate our California factory, which is the largest auto plant in North America, at full capacity and are considering expanding it significantly.

It has built 2/3 of all electric vehicles in North America, twice as much as all other carmakers combined.”

“I do try my hardest to be good and sometimes I fear that untrue negative stories about me may cause others to excuse their bad behavior to their conscience, because they think I’m doing it too, but I’m not!”

| Elon Musk

“Uncharted territory will result in failures necessarily, otherwise you’re not trying hard enough.”

| Elon Musk

“I am a strong believer in doing the reality of good over the perception of good. So we're just gonna take the heat. If we know we're gonna get sued despite doing the right thing, we will do the right thing and get sued.”

| Elon Musk

[on wokeism] “Humor relies on an intuitive & often awkward truth being recognized by the audience, but wokeism is a lie, which is why nobody laughs.”

| Elon Musk

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

| Elon Musk

“Over time, Tesla will generate hundreds of billions for the government in terms of employee income tax, product sales tax and property tax, in addition to profit taxation.”

| Elon Musk

[Talking about building a house] “Does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house? I would be real OCD on the little details and the design… or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the latter.”

| Elon Musk

"Tesla will argue for autonomous driving, but we're not going to argue against manual driving. I believe people should have the freedom to choose to do what they want to do."

| Elon Musk

“We always try to do the right thing [at Tesla]. We really care about that. When we make mistakes, it's just because we were being foolish or stupid or whatever."

| Elon Musk