You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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.
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.
