“I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future,” — Ashlee Vance Bright future Copy Share Image
“he then talked earnestly about saving humanity while a blotch of the dessert hung from his lower lip.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“You would see people come out of the meetings with this disgusted look on their face,” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“You don’t tell Elon you can’t do something. That will get you kicked out of the room” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“I mean, there aren’t that many people you can talk to about this sort of thing” — Ashlee Vance People Copy Share Image
“He wanted to inspire the masses and reinvigorate their passion for science, conquest, and the promise of technology.” — Ashlee Vance Inspiration Copy Share Image
“surgery. “Elon can be very demanding, but he’ll make sure the obstacles in your way are removed,” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“He goes into his brain, and then you just see he is in another world,” — Ashlee Vance Another world Copy Share Image
“What separated Tesla from the competition was the willingness to charge after its vision without compromise, a complete commitment to execute to… — Ashlee Vance Dreams Copy Share Image
“I mean, this is going to sound like heresy in a sort of Silicon Valley context, but you can program faster, you… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Musk sits somewhere on the autism spectrum and that he has trouble considering other people’s emotions and caring about their well-being.” — Ashlee Vance Autism Copy Share Image
“I’m not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some… — Ashlee Vance Investing Copy Share Image
“I may have been optimistic with respect to the timing on some of these things, but I didn’t over-promise on the outcome,”… — Ashlee Vance Hope Copy Share Image
“People had thrown money at green technology because it seemed like the right thing to do, not because it made business sense.” — Ashlee Vance Business Copy Share Image
“I might have fixed that thing but now I’ve made the person unproductive. It just wasn’t a good way to go about… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Another testing procedure required that the Roadsters go into a special cooling chamber to check how they would respond to frigid temperatures.… — Ashlee Vance Ice cream Copy Share Image
“SpaceX, for example, would have written down all the steps needed to replace a filter—put on gloves, wear safety goggles, remove a… — Ashlee Vance Space Copy Share Image
“His next move had to be either in solar or in space. “He said, ‘The logical thing to happen next is solar,… — Ashlee Vance Money Copy Share Image
“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic… — Ashlee Vance Breakthroughs Copy Share Image
“All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. If everyone else ran off a bloody cliff, they’d run right off… — Ashlee Vance Bankers Copy Share Image
“Musk had never run a car factory before and was considered arrogant and amateurish by Detroit. Yet, one year after the Model… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Throughout these early years, the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick, crisp decisions. Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation.… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“The media reports from the day described the car as the love child of an Aston Martin and a Maserati. In reality,… — Ashlee Vance Aston martin Copy Share Image
“Well, we will decide we’re going into production and then a miracle is going to happen,” — Ashlee Vance Miracle Copy Share Image
“Musk pulled Justine close while they danced, and informed her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“When Musk is present, the chats tend toward the absurd and fantastic” — Ashlee Vance Absurd Copy Share Image
“He just destroys you and, if you survive, he determines if he can trust you.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that your intuition about things you don’t know that much about isn’t very good” — Ashlee Vance Intuition Copy Share Image
“He’s hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon” just as they had been striving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.” — Ashlee Vance Business Copy Share Image
“There is a happy-gas factory up on the hill, and it’s pumping stuff into the Valley.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“He’s less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory. Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share… — Ashlee Vance Human race Copy Share Image
“I calculated the backstop value, and it was something like fifty cents on the dollar, while the actual debt was trading at… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“At Tesla, there was no history, no baggage. There was just a vision of products that could change the world. Who wouldn’t… — Ashlee Vance Change the world Copy Share Image
“Later in life, as I competed against the banks, I would think back to this moment, and it gave me confidence. All… — Ashlee Vance Confidence Copy Share Image
“Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation. The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“flashed a spreadsheet he’d created. “Hey, guys,” he said, “I think we can build this rocket ourselves.” Griffin and Cantrell had downed… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“That ability to stay focused in the midst of a crisis stands as one of Musk’s main advantages over other executives and” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
