The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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.