Quotes from Kimbal Musk

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food - simple - there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.

The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don't want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it's like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, 'We're creating community through food.' That's the big idea we had, the product we're exporting. And it has paid off.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the challenges inherent in gasoline engines and the promise of the electric engine.

Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.

I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.

I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America.

Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.

No one wins in the industrial food system.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

The support we received at OneRiot from the beginning has been amazing. Everyone's door was open, and everyone was rooting for our success. In turn, our team at OneRiot has done everything we can to return the favor.

The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly recognized as the pioneer in 'green' restaurants across the country.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

Food never ends. It's one of the greatest things about working on food - we're always going to need food.