Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

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.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Short cuts make long delays.

Nature does nothing in vain.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Time is money.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.