“Math jokes have a small audience.”

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!

Great companies are built on great products.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

As a child I would just question things.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

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

Best place to view is from the beach. Excitement guaranteed!

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

I want to show audiences I can act.

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn’t allow you to achieve greatness and results. It’s the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.