“I mean, this is going to sound like heresy in a sort of Silicon Valley context, but you can program faster, you… — Ashlee Vance Silicon valley 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 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
“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
“He just destroys you and, if you survive, he determines if he can trust you.” — Ashlee Vance Trust Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment” — Ashlee Vance Buddhism 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 New car 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
“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 Stay focused 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
“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
“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
“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
“There is a happy-gas factory up on the hill, and it’s pumping stuff into the Valley.” — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“The longer you wait to fire someone the longer it has been since you should have fired them” — Ashlee Vance 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
“Cult of Musk. Employees fear Musk. They adore Musk. They give up their lives for Musk, and they usually do all of… — 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 Copy Share Image
“He always works from a different understanding of reality than the rest of us,” — Ashlee Vance Learning Copy Share Image
