“The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them” — Ashlee Vance Fired Copy Share Image
“Founded in June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies came to life in humble settings.” — Ashlee Vance Life Copy Share Image
“He always works from a different understanding of reality than the rest of us,” — Ashlee Vance Different Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment” — Ashlee Vance Buddhism Copy Share Image
“for Musk, the distinction between stumbling into something and having intent is important.” — Ashlee Vance Musk Copy Share Image
“He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,” — Ashlee Vance Answer Copy Share Image
“You don’t tell Elon you can’t do something. That will get you kicked out of the room” — Ashlee Vance Just because 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’s vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With” — Ashlee Vance Dreams Copy Share Image
“Cult of Musk. Employees fear Musk. They adore Musk. They give up their lives for Musk, and they usually do all of… — Ashlee Vance Musk Copy Share Image
“This is the first place I have worked that is going to change the world,” Blankenship said, taking a jab at the… — Ashlee Vance Change the world Copy Share Image
“As Page puts it, “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” It’s a principle he’s tried to apply at Google.” — Ashlee Vance Good ideas Copy Share Image
“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make… — Ashlee Vance Goals 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
“Elon said, ‘I would tell those people they will get to see their families a lot when we go bankrupt.” — Ashlee Vance Bankrupt Copy Share Image
“Like Steve Jobs before him, Musk is able to think up things that consumers did not even know they wanted—the door handles,… — Ashlee Vance Musk Copy Share Image
“Most car dealers make the majority of their profits from servicing cars. They treat vehicles like a subscription service, expecting people to… — Ashlee Vance Car dealer Copy Share Image
“He gave a speech, saying we would work on Saturdays and Sundays and sleep under desks until it got done. Someone pushed… — Ashlee Vance Communication Copy Share Image
“This left Musk searching for an industry that had tons of money and inefficiencies that he and the Internet could exploit. Musk… — Ashlee Vance Internet Copy Share Image
“One person putting in a sixteen-hour day ends up being much more effective than two people working eight-hour days together. The individual… — Ashlee Vance Hour Day Copy Share Image
“As Musk put it, “Try to imagine explaining that you’re investing in an electric car company, and everything you read about the… — Ashlee Vance Business 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 Every day Copy Share Image
“«Jamás he conocido a nadie con su capacidad de trabajo y de resistencia a la tensión —afirma Gracias—. Las cosas a las… — Ashlee Vance Amor Copy Share Image
“Thought Leadership “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” Book by Ashlee Vance “Take risks now and do… — Ashlee Vance Elon musk Copy Share Image
“During a time in which clean-tech businesses have gone bankrupt with alarming regularity, Musk has built two of the most successful clean-tech… — Ashlee Vance Business 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
“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
“What Musk had done that the rival automakers missed or didn’t have the means to combat was turn Tesla into a lifestyle.… — Ashlee Vance Musk 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 Survive Copy Share Image
“There is a happy-gas factory up on the hill, and it’s pumping stuff into the Valley.” — Ashlee Vance Mountain 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 Unproductive 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
“I calculated the backstop value, and it was something like fifty cents on the dollar, while the actual debt was trading at… — Ashlee Vance Cents Musk 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
“Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation. The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at… — Ashlee Vance Tesla Copy Share Image
“Musk pulled Justine close while they danced, and informed her, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” — Ashlee Vance Danced Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Ability to change Copy Share Image
