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“Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation. The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at something, it…

— Ashlee Vance

“The guys like Straubel who had been at Tesla since the beginning are quick to remind people that the chance to build an awesome…

— Ashlee Vance

“As Musk put it, “Try to imagine explaining that you’re investing in an electric car company, and everything you read about the car company…

— Ashlee Vance

“But the more the Tesla guys researched the industry, the more they realized that the big automakers don’t even really build their cars anymore.…

— Ashlee Vance

“What separated Tesla from the competition was the willingness to charge after its vision without compromise, a complete commitment to execute to Musk’s standards.”

— Ashlee Vance

“Last-minute design changes were required, however, necessitating more money. Tesla had already obtained a second loan from Morgan, and when those funds ran out,…

— Sean Patrick

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…

— Kimbal Musk

“Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?”

— Clive Barker

The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and…

— Adam Lashinsky

Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of…

— Robert Rosenberg

“Allis Chalmers, an American manufacturing company, and the railway and lighting division of the Westinghouse Company contracted Tesla to build his flying machine, but…

— Sean Patrick

Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as capital allocation…

— Adam Lashinsky