Thread by @Quartr_App

Today, we are sharing a MONSTER thread with some of the most outrageous $TSLA earnings call quotes from @elonmusk over the years🧵

1. This one from 2018 is hilarious. Elon refuses to answer a "boring bonehead question" and then the operator just moves along to the next analyst:

2. In 2014, Elon shared his napkin math on how $TSLA could surpass $AAPL's then ~$700B market cap:

3. And to @elonmusk's credit, $TSLA's market cap did in fact surpass $700B. So, almost exactly a year ago, Elon went for another prediction.

This time, he claimed to see a path for Tesla to be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco *combined* (this would mean >$4.3T):

To give that wild statement some more color, here's a visualization (at the time, $TSLA's market cap was roughly $700B):

4. This is where things go really crazy though.

Earlier this year, Elon said he was "very confident" in a 10x (or 5x.. or maybe 10x) increase in $TSLA's market cap (this would mean ~$9.2T):

We of course visualized this, too.

Using today's $AAPL market cap of $2.8T, you could stack 3x (!) Apple and still not reach Elon's $TSLA $9.2T market cap prediction:

5. Here's another good one from 2018. @elonmusk says Daimler's CEO "doesn't know much about physics":

6. Here's Elon Musk recommending @ARKInvest:

"These questions are so dry. They're killing me."

7. Here are two more funny "boring question" remarks from the Q1 2018 call:

8. Here's @elonmusk claiming that $TSLA's demand is "indistinguishable from infinite":

9. There will also be "quasi-infinite" demand for $TSLA's robotaxi products, according to Musk:

10. Oldie but goldie! Elon about his sleeping bag at the end of the production line in 2016:

11. "Moats are lame", says @elonmusk:

12. Elon on the fact that $TSLA was the first American car company in a 100 years to not go bankrupt while trying to achieve car volume production:

"Give people back their goddamn freedom"

13. Elon's very strong feelings about the Covid lockdowns in 2020:

14. Elon giving investment advice earlier this year:

"If we have to go mine, we will mine"

15. On vertical integration – If $TSLA can't find a good enough raw materials supplier, they will start their own mine(s), says Musk: