“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
“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
“«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
“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
“Throughout these early years, the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick, crisp decisions. Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation.… — Ashlee Vance Tesla Copy Share Image
“on Mars, because the atmosphere is carbon dioxide and there’s a lot of water or ice in the soil, the carbon dioxide… — Ashlee Vance Carbon dioxide Copy Share Image
“And by recruiting hundreds of bright, self-motivated people, SpaceX has maximized the power of the individual. One person putting in a sixteen-hour… — Ashlee Vance Self motivated Copy Share Image
“Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist who has invested in SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, worked for Jobs, and knows Gates well, also described… — Ashlee Vance Musk Copy Share Image
“Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don’t even get a reward. So, it’s very asymmetric. It’s then… — Ashlee Vance Regulators Copy Share Image
“I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future,” — Ashlee Vance Bright future 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
“You would see people come out of the meetings with this disgusted look on their face,” — Ashlee Vance Disgusted 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
“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 Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people. That is what differentiates… — Ashlee Vance Different level Copy Share Image
“«He aprendido que la intuición no funciona muy bien en lo relativo a cosas de las que uno no sabe mucho —cuenta… — Ashlee Vance Amor Copy Share Image
“The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are… — Ashlee Vance Principles Copy Share Image
“Musk came to see man’s fate in the universe as a personal obligation. If that meant pursuing cleaner energy technology or building… — Ashlee Vance Musk 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 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
“These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new… — Ashlee Vance People Driven Copy Share Image
“Musk had spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it. From Cantrell and others, he’d borrowed Rocket Propulsion Elements,… — Ashlee Vance 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 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
“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
“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 Elon musk Copy Share Image
“favored moving toward open-source software like Linux, while Musk championed Microsoft’s data-center software as being more likely to keep productivity high. This… — Ashlee Vance Productivity Copy Share Image
“7 ALL ELECTRIC J. B. STRAUBEL HAS A TWO-INCH-LONG SCAR that cuts across the middle of his left cheek. He earned it… — Ashlee Vance High school Copy Share Image
“The guys like Straubel who had been at Tesla since the beginning are quick to remind people that the chance to build… — Ashlee Vance Business opportunity Copy Share Image
