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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.